Oh yes, another gun topic

This is the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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.

A rather easy amendment to remember. An easier amendment to understand.

"Shall Not Be Infringed" - This portion alone should be enough for even the most clueless to comprehend. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

The 2nd Amendment protects the 1st Amendment. The 2nd Amendment protects all of the amendments. The 2nd Amendment protects the rights of free people in a free state.

Open the Constitution to a change in the 2nd and you eliminate all you hold sacred. Watch the government erase your rights (instead of just incrementally erode them). Return the rule of law to the rule of man. See citizens with elected officials become subjects with rulers. Witness the return of slavery.

Notice the 2nd Amendment does not list specifically individual firearms just as the 1st Amendment does not list individual religions or methods of a free press (internet, telephones, telegraphs, radio, TV, etc). Our founding fathers understood that times would change, inventions would appear, and technologies would adapt. The 1st and 2nd Amendments did not require specifications about current and future technologies. The 1st and 2nd Amendments require a free state, full of citizens placing value on what they have, and then preserving that value for all eternity.

It is not that the 2nd Amendment requires updating because it is in excess of 200 years old. It is the practicality and the merit of the amendment (and those who wrote it and fight for it) that it has endured for more than 200 years. Against all of the repugnant attempts to dilute its meaning, obscure its context, and outright destroy its purpose, the citizens of the United States, for those willing to read and follow these words, the 2nd Amendment is a guardian against all of the rest and a pledge to preserve forever.

How ironic that those who cry the loudest against the Constitution enjoy its fullest protection, even while laboring tirelessly to dismantle it? For the clueless will always be protected by the citizens of a free state.

They just don't know how clueless they are in the process.