TM says;
" The 2nd has alot of intepretation by agendi of various people...anybody can say they support it, especially any weasel worded politician. Did Cain specify how he supports it,,,militia only, unfettered, regulated and registries, or whatever?....what Guzzi was asking ....'what speciffically are the views of this guy on RTBA"....so we need alot more info rather than cheerleading. Now, his 9-9-9 is ridiculous and amounts to slavery".
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..Funny, how a guy on a hunting/shooting website can start using the usual liberal/progressive phrases concerning the 2nd amendment, isn't it !
TM;
There is no problem understanding what the original writers of the constitution had in mind..they published their thoughts and reasons in "The Federalist Papers"..just read the appropriate Federalist Paper.
Here from Federalist Paper #46;
" Extravagant as the supposition is, let it however be made. Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it. Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors. Let us rather no longer insult them with the supposition that they can ever reduce themselves to the necessity of making the experiment, by a blind and tame submission to the long train of insidious measures which must precede and produce it".
Note: I blue highlighted a portion for easier understanding..
As far as Cain's views on the 2nd..keep in mind, he just was thoroughly questioned and spoke at length to the NRA national convention..and they are enthusiastic with his candidacy.. Nuff said !
