Founders Second Amendment
Narrative Fail: The Founders Knew All About Advances in Firearm Technology When They Wrote the Second Amendment
To make stocks faster and more uniformly, Thomas Blanchard invented fourteen different machine tools. Each machine would be set up for one particular cut. As the stock was cut, it would be moved from machine to machine. By mounting the stock to the machine tools with jigs and fixtures, a manufacturer could ensure that each stock would be placed … Read more
New York Times Debunks Author’s Claim the Second Amendment Was Designed to Protect Slavery
[Carol] Anderson’s [book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America], however, is wanting in important respects. She argues unconvincingly, in the face of formidable scholarship to the contrary, that the aim to protect slavery was the predominant motive behind the Second Amendment. She writes that the Second Amendment was “the result of … Read more
Did the Founding Fathers Blow It?
By Dennis Petrocelli, MD I write this on the occasion of President Biden’s executive order regarding “gun” “control”. I anticipate that my readers would expect me to excoriate him and his ilk and denounce them as tyrannical, ill-informed, and a threat to our nation’s foundational principles. All of these points are true, but they aren’t … Read more
The Founders on What The Second Amendment Really Means
By Dr. Larry Trick “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 “The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer … Read more
Correcting a New York Times Writer’s Distorted History of the Second Amendment
This reference to the 2nd Amendment is a head scratcher only if you don’t know that 2nd Amendment was in fact created to ensure Southern slaveowners the right to maintain & arm slave patrols to put down insurrections amongst the enslaved. Now he’s invoking agnst their descendants https://t.co/9anFgRjQCm — Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 1, … Read more
Virginia is a Reminder That the Second Amendment Has Nothing to Do With Hunting
Too many Americans view the Second Amendment as granting Americans the right to own firearms to go hunting and for self-protection. But the framers of our Constitution had no such intent in mind. James Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 46 wrote that the Constitution preserves “the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over … Read more
As a Matter of Fact, the Founding Fathers Did Know About Repeating Rifles
Gun control advocates love to claim that the Founding Fathers couldn’t possibly have conceived of repeating rifles when they drafted the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. The history of Joseph Belton, an inventor and gunsmith from Philadelphia, and his correspondence with the Continental Congress proves otherwise. Belton claimed to have devised a new … Read more
Gun Rights Supporters Shouldn’t Ignore the Second Amendment’s Prefatory Clause
Last night we included a link in the daily digest to a post by Ryan McMaken at lewrockwell.com entitled Why We Can’t Ignore the “Militia” Clause of the Second Amendment. It deserves special attention as it’s a wonderful survey of the history of the militia in this country, a review of the thinking and writing of the Founders … Read more
