Why do we Fight for 2A Rights?

[oaklander]

What motivates you to fight for Second Amendment rights?

For me, it was Hurricane Katrina. I'd been shooting off and on for years, but seeing the SHTF in N.O. made me realize how vulnerable my family was (we just had a new baby).

I vowed at that point to fight (not only looters), but also those who would take away the right of defense. . .

EDIT: this pic speaks for itself:

[oaklander]

Don't all jump in at one time. . .

[N6ATF]

No watershed event. Just knowing too many in government are criminals and want us to either be their slaves or dead is enough.

Hold your BLOODY HORSES. 8 MINUTES TOO MUCH? LOL

[hoffmang]

How to keep this response to a forum post...

I lived in and near the heart of the civil rights movement - just 15 years later. I've experienced the feeling of being deprived the first amendment and being forced to retreat from supposedly banned firearms. If we can abrogate the second, then the first, and the fourth are surely not far behind.

The real reason the second amendment exists is to lower the chance it would ever be actually needed. That a said, I'm very, very glad it was there for the Deacons for Defense and Justice, SNIC, CORE, and NAACP, not to mention a few guys in Boston 235 years ago...

-Gene

[DDT]

I've always been a strong advocate for civil rights and ALL of our constitutionally enumerated rights. I used to hunt as a kid but hadn't really shot a gun since I was 16 or 17. I had a kid and wanted him to enjoy the outdoors and shooting like I did as a youngster.

The world just sort of evolved to the point where firearms became the most important civil liberty that was being infringed in a massive, systematic way. When Heller came out I thought there was an opportunity to get involved and then when we elected someone I feared was a gun-grabber as president I felt that I couldn't NOT get involved.

[Electricboy]

I spent my youth shooting on my uncles ranch. after the navy i moved around northern california alot and left my guns with my dad. when i got back to mendocino county i got back into shooting and "where the hell did that law come from?" so now i'm fighting for the rights i didn't notice we lost.

[Electricboy]

i am also an NRA member and read the forums here so i know what is happening around me.

[Stryprod]

because the police have NO LEGAL obligation to protect me and more importantly, because I have a MORAL obligation to protect my family and especially my beautiful baby daughter.

[joeyriv]

Sometime after I left the military, I realized that the real fight for freedom isn't on a foreign shore, but right here within our own borders... Then I opened my eyes and realized that our gun rights had been seriously eroded while I was in the care of Uncle Sam.... Then Hillary announced her candidacy for the POTUS, and I finally figured that I was silent for far too long.

[lioneaglegriffin]

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or any variant you've heard.:
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke
Super Quote!

[berto]

Defending myself and my loved ones from violence or oppression.

[FEDUPWBS]

Defending myself and my loved ones from violence or oppression.

AND TYRANNY!

[lioneaglegriffin]

nuff said

i thought it would make the perfect quote.

[trilogy]

The police/army/.gov are going to be no where to be found when the zombie outbreak comes.

And all that civil rights founding fathers type stuff

--Matt

[Lex Arma]

2A Inspiration

I was raised in a military family, my father was a Navy veteran. His three brothers also served. I served 6 years in the Naval Reserve myself. My brother is still in the military.

I am also a former Boy Scout. (Do they still have shooting/hunting merit badges?)

I was raised in the South (Texas, Louisiana, Virginia) and saw first hand the vestiges of the legacy of our "peculiar institution." It wasn't just the grinding poverty and disparate treatment of blacks in the South. It was the way my black friends felt that they had to act meek and subservient around "the man", while I (a white kid) was free to speak my mind, go where I wanted, buy what I wanted and even challenge authority without risking an *** whooping or worse.

My upbringing was patriotic. We hunted and were taught self-reliance as a virtue.

I always took "the right to keep and bear arms" for granted. It was like an arm or a leg, I couldn't imagine my life without it. (If the right is ever lost, I am sure I will have the phantom feelings of it still being there.)

I remember the exact moment when I stopped taking the Second Amendment for granted, and dedicated myself to "doing something."

It was after the Stockton massacre (1988/89). The CA legislature had just shoved Roberti-Roos down our throats. I was a mechanic at the time working at a Cadillac dealership. I was attending night school. I was going to major in History and try to get a job teaching High School or Junior College.

After the government of the State of CA said I couldn't own an appropriate firearm to defend my home and community, I changed my major to Political Science and set myself on a path to law school.

I echo Gene Hoffman's comments. The greatest social utility of the Second Amendment, from the standpoint of keeping this country free, is a vigorous defense of the ideals of that amendment, without having to actually resort to its practical application.