Freedom of Speech

Was called Satan by a person against guns and against all people who support the 2nd amendment. I told him "God bless you" I also asked—knowing what is said in Matthew—what does Luke 22:36-37(38?) mean if it doesn't mean you are allowed to defend yourself. More so, why does the second part of the 2nd amendment added if you can not own a firearm. He will brook no argument from me about the first part because I happen to agree. However he ignores the second half of the 2nd amendment "The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" sorry. Yes our forefathers wanted a free army thus they need the militia, but they also saw what happened when the British attempted to disarm the Colonies and how the ones in power abused that power.

One last thing before I go, if you think the 2nd amendment does not cover AR-15's and the like, I would like to point you to this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Now I am NOT saying that you can overthrow the Government just because you don't like how it is run, but there are reasons you can and should do so. And we can't do that with only pistols and hunting rifles, the Colonists actually had better weaponry then the British at the time meaning that sorry facts fit in with needing an AR-15