"The Second Amendment is NOT about duck hunting …."

"I've been sitting here getting more and more fed up with all this talk about these pieces of machinery having no legitimate sporting purpose.  No legitimate hunting purpose.  People, that is not the point of the Second Amendment.  The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting ... it's about our rights ... to protect OURSELVES from all of YOU guys up there."

-Dr. Suzanne Gratia, a survivor of the Killeen, Texas Luby's massacre, to Congressman Charles Schumer (D-NY), 1994

Dr. Gratia sums up the essence of the Second Amendment perfectly, when one considers that it was written just after fledgling America had won her independence from a corrupt government, due largely in part to its many local militias, made up of average Joes like me, and like you....

AMENDMENT II

"A well regulated militia, being NECESSARY to the security of a free state, 

the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

The term "militia" is often vilified today, and is usually presented in the popular media as tantamount to the loosely organized survivalist groups found in Backwoods America. Carefully phrased and widely broadcast characterizations then tend to make militias out to be kissing cousins of the white supremacist, neo-Nazi or anarchist movements. (Just as Christian "Fundamentalists" and even Evangelicals have been, more and more frequently of late.)

Of course, to the 'Progressive' mindset, "a well regulated militia" should have the stamp of approval of the government, and even be a tool of it, thereby arriving at the conclusion that the National Guard, along with the Air Force and Naval Reserves, satisfactorily fills the necessary role that a militia secures for America's standing as a free state. It should be pointed out, however, that the State Police forces of the 20th century's European Iron Curtain nations were recognized as the official militia of their respective governments, for the sole purpose of making a militia in the style of the American Revolutionary era unnecessary, and ultimately, illegal....

So then, one can see the bedrock underpinning of the Gun Ban ideology: With America's "weekend warriors" -- our Citizen Soldiers of the Guard and Reserves -- ready at a minute's notice ("Minutemen", remember?) to secure our existence as a Free State, why then do we need to suffer the private ownership of guns at all? You do realize, don't you, that the ultimate goal of the Gun Ban Movement is to remove firearms from the general population, completely?