Therefore, we must be prepared to defend ourselves against its abuses, but the movement against 2nd Amendment rights is not just a threat to our capacity to defend ourselves physically against …show more content…
Three, in particular, were the 1774 import ban on firearms and gunpowder, the 1774 to 1775 confiscations of firearms and gunpowder, and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. The Declaration listed the tyrannical acts of King George III; including his methods for carrying out gun control: “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our people” (US 1776). As the war went on, the British always remembered that without gun control, they could never control America. They would not allow the British to confiscate their individual arms, nor their collective arms; and when the British tried to do both, the Revolution began. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment. The federal Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits the import of any firearm that is not deemed “sporting” by federal …show more content…
A law enforcement officer derives its authority from the government, and all the power it has, and their power from their gun which can take someone’s life at their discretion, compelling people to obey them. The government derives it from the people and people forget that. For authority to exist, it must have power itself or the loyalty of power. In our government, our elected officials don't carry guns, but they have the loyalty of the military instead. The only way a populace can challenge this power, is if they have equal or greater power which can only be the case in an armed populace (Does the Second Amendment protect citizens from a tyrannical government?