Re: The newest edition to the family
Nottheking;508504 said:
Also, there was no language actually placed in the Second Amendment that specified that gun ownership was for a libertarian/anarchist/rebellious purpose. Rather, the ONLY actual implied purpose anyone could derive from the Second Amendment without outright fabricating things is in fact the opposite: gun ownership was to facilitate the ability of each individual state to maintain its own militia. And in fact, this purpose seems practically explicit in one of the versions of the amendment. (though it does not exactl say that such is the only way it's permitted, as was ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller)
Theres that, and theres the federalist papers, written in large by the same guys who signed the constitution. The most popular of which being Alexander Hamilton federalist 28:
"In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair"
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa28.htm
As for the rest of it, there are plenty of papers and quotes from the "founding fathers" to establish that the purpose of the right to have and bear was at least in part - a last resort against a treasonous government.
Oh, and PLEASE dont mix up "libertarian" with sedition. Libertarians want the constitution restored to the exact letter of the document. Nothing more, nothing less.