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Context is everything. Those words were written over 200 years ago. The threat of invasion by Great Britain is rather lessened these days.
there are many many reasons the founding fathers placed our first and second amendments where they are. There are many different reasons for them being there, one of them is to overthrow a government that stops working on behalf of the people, call it the ultimate check in our system of checks and balances. Other reasons for our second amendment are simple, and extremely easy to understand. Protection is most defiantly one of them, not only from our own government, but from criminal elements that wish us harm.
Don't expect to be able to travel to other states without a passport; don't expect any services from the US.
You and your militia training centers are on your own.
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Don't expect to be able to travel to other states without a passport; don't expect any services from the US.
You're and your militia training centers are on your own.
LOL, good points but honestly does anyone out there think the US would allow Montana to leave the Union??
Lets be serious.
We all know how Montana loves the FBI, they would be out there like flies on you know what and take over the state until more suitable people to govern could be found.
LOL, good points but honestly does anyone out there think the US would allow Montana to leave the Union??
Lets be serious.
We all know how Montana loves the FBI, they would be out there like flies on you know what and take over the state until more suitable people to govern could be found.
Montana, get over yourselves.
I thought Texas was too full of themselves (which of course it is). But this is nonsense.
Montana-get over yourself! I think you are dreaming if you think that if you think that heavily arming every man woman and child that somehow you are safer; you are not.
Freedom cannot be taken from anyone, it can only be given up. When you commit crimes you risk your freedom, you give it up. I do not think that allowing citizens to stockpile automatic weapons in their homes is what the second amendment is all about. I think that would be more like preparing and or provoking war, and that is NOT covered by the second amendment.
Freedom cannot be taken from anyone, it can only be given up. When you commit crimes you risk your freedom, you give it up. I do not think that allowing citizens to stockpile automatic weapons in their homes is what the second amendment is all about. I think that would be more like preparing and or provoking war, and that is NOT covered by the second amendment.
Who said anything about stockpiling automatic weapons?
The basis of the issue is the desire of many in Montana to maintain their firearms (and other) freedoms. There are many others in the nation that feel the same way as those in Montana. If the U.S. nullifies the 2nd Amendment, there will be a lot of people in the nation calling for secession, not just in Montana.
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On another note: Will someone please direct me to a source that verifies that the government is going to strip everyone of their guns?
As for the "government" wanting to take away firearms from American citizens, one has to look at who is leading that government. This is our current President's agenda regarding firearms:
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Originally Posted by whitehouse.gov
Obama and Biden would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.
While all of this sounds innocent enough, each point is a nail in the coffin of the 2nd Amendment. The Tiahrt Amendment protects gun owner's privacy. Here is more information on it:
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=208 (broken link)
If you think about it, "commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals" is just another way of saying they are going to restrict gun ownership and sales. History has proven that.
"They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent." What purpose would this serve? The ban during the Clinton years did nothing to reduce crime with "assault weapons." It's hard to reduce something that is essentially non-existent. The foundation of the 2nd Amendment was to provide for citizens to possess weapons in common use at the time. This was to allow the citizens to join together to form a Militia to protect the nation from invasion and tyranny. How would the citizens of the nation do so without the ability to arm themselves with the weapons in common use (by the armies of the world)?
I'm thinking if montana is such a strong supporter of the constitution, ready to pledge their lives and fortunes upon it, it's best they start standing up for gays, who also insist the constitution be followed. Oh yes, and women, who don't need to be harrassed about the difficult choices they have to make. There's that too.
Or maybe montana really wants to pick and choose what they abide/ impose on others to suit themselves out of convenience and to hell with the 'just a piece of paper' standing in their way. Funny, I didn't hear y'all up in arms when the man you put in office used that language, and suddenly the toilet paper he was wiping his butt with is precious? Quit lying. You're fooling no one but yourselves.
HELENA—Secretary of State Brad Johnson joined the many other Montanans who have weighed in on the DC v. Heller case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. A letter to the editor from Johnson appeared in today’s Washington Times, urging the court to protect an individual’s right to bear arms.
“This is an important issue for Montanans,” Johnson said. “Many of Montana’s elected officials spoke out on this issue; I am proud to be among them.”
The letter can be found at this link.
Johnson’s letter argued that Montana’s agreement with the United States to enter the union included Montana’s constitution at the time, which guaranteed the right of “any person” to bear arms. He urged the Supreme Court to uphold an individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment, rather than a collective interpretation, as best in keeping with Montana’s Compact with the United States.
Many other elected officials around Montana have concurred in a statement of the same argument, in a bipartisan effort to defend Montanans’ individual right to keep and bear arms. The list of officials, as well as their resolution, can be found at: http://www.progunleaders.org.
Letter from the above link:
Second Amendment an individual right
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide D.C. v. Heller, the first case in more than 60 years in which the court will confront the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although Heller is about the constitutionality of the D.C. handgun ban, the court's decision will have an impact far beyond the District ("Promises breached," Op-Ed, Thursday).
The court must decide in Heller whether the Second Amendment secures a right for individuals to keep and bear arms or merely grants states the power to arm their militias, the National Guard. This latter view is called the "collective rights" theory.
A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in 1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana Constitution, guaranteeing the right of "any person" to bear arms, clearly an individual right.
There was no assertion in 1889 that the Second Amendment was susceptible to a collective rights interpretation, and the parties to the contract understood the Second Amendment to be consistent with the declared Montana constitutional right of "any person" to bear arms.
As a bedrock principle of law, a contract must be honored so as to give effect to the intent of the contracting parties. A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract between the United States and Montana, and many other states.
Numerous Montana lawmakers have concurred in a resolution raising this contract-violation issue. It's posted at progunleaders.org. The United States would do well to keep its contractual promise to the states that the Second Amendment secures an individual right now as it did upon execution of the statehood contract.
I might have to consider moving to Montana ESPECIALLY since this was the state that told Washington to *&%^ off with the REAL ID.
Montana people congrats you have leaders in power who have a spine.
You know Washington D.C. is stepping over it's bounds when you have states threatening to withdraw from the Union. If they do I will move there the next day. That's a promise.
Can't see it happening. They have a DEM Governor and the state of Montana though did not go blue this last cycle it came pretty close.
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very well said
