by Wallace Garneau, America Outloud:
The Second Amendment exists to protect the First Amendment. Democrats don’t like that because its absolute authority hangs like a personal threat to their agenda. They fear that if the white peasants Obama described in his first campaign, who “cling to the guns and bibles,” were to become angry and do something about it, they could be finished.
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Democrats argue that the US Constitution, especially that silly Bill of Rights, is really too simple to be effective in modern times. What does it mean, they ask, when Article II says: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed?”
That’s pretty explicit, but Democrats argue that a well-regulated militia should mean National Guard units in every state, but when the Constitution was written, there were no National Guard units, only “Minute Men” types of militias. Were they well organized? Apparently, because George Washington organized them into an army that beat the British. But well acquainted with European governments, the founding fathers were well aware of the danger of an organized army unfettered by prohibitions doing what their leadership told them to do. Therefore, the Founding Fathers created an army with civilian control. That’s why the Posse Comitatus Act was enacted.
America, off and on, has experienced various types of “militias” like Sheriffs posses, when armed civilians were temporarily deputized to act in the name of the law. When that didn’t work, vigilante groups often formed up not necessarily to support the rule of law but to bring quick “justice” to a community where law and order had been abandoned by corrupt officials. The threat of apprehension and punishment of evil-doers was necessary to retain peace in a community. Vigilante groups often did include a judge, if only to validate what the unsworn civilians were going to do and try to keep it within the bounds of law. We don’t see posses much anymore except in movies, but vigilantism of sorts has reestablished itself.
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