How Right Wing's Fake 2nd Amendment History Kills

[HomerRamone]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-parry/51727/how-fake-2nd-amendment-history-kills

After last December’s massacre of 20 children and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, Napolitano declared: “The historical reality of the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms is not that it protects the right to shoot deer. It protects the right to shoot tyrants, and it protects the right to shoot at them effectively, with the same instruments they would use upon us.”

The clear message from the Right has been that armed Americans must confront the “tyrannical” Barack Obama – the twice-elected President of the United States (and the first African-American to hold that office) – especially if he presses ahead seeking commonsense gun restrictions.

Which brings us back to the Navy Yard massacre in Washington D.C. It has quickly and quietly taken its place among the other mass slaughters that can’t be stopped because the Right’s powerful propaganda apparatus has sold millions of Americans on the dangerous – and false – notion that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution wanted it this way.

These modern “revolutionaries” have been persuaded that they are channeling the intent of the Framers who supposedly saw armed uprisings against the legally constituted U.S. government as an important element of “liberty.” But that belief is not the historical reality. Indeed, the reality is almost the opposite.

[gopiscrap]

1. Yup I agree

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. Every right enshrined in the BoR is pro-citizen, anti-government

No, there is no right to rebel against the legally constituted government but if the 2A does grant citizens a counter weight to government armed force then that assumes the government is acting unconstitutionally and violently against the citizenry.