“Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green (R), President Donald Trump’s nominee for Army secretary, strongly believes that citizens should be armed ? and not just with any ol’ guns. They should be able to possess whatever weapons the military has, because an armed citizenry is the “ultimate checks and balances” against the federal government.
“The Second Amendment, while it allows citizens to protect themselves from other citizens, goes well beyond just allowing us to defend ourselves from a criminal,” Green said at a pro-gun rally in 2013.
“The men who penned and ratified this document gave us the right to keep and bear arms as an ultimate checks and balances against the federal government,” he added. “When considering magazine size and weapon type, comments like, ‘You don’t need a 10-round magazine to hunt deer’ completely misses the point of the Second Amendment.”
The Tennessee state senator also said that “the citizenry should be allowed to maintain whatever weapon the federal government has. If they can have an aircraft carrier, I ought to be able to have an aircraft carrier.”
Woo-hoo!
Members of the general public then, presumably, would be allowed to possess nuclear weapons as well. “
I’ve said for years that I’d be happy with just an A-10 – if I can afford it there should be nothing to fear from me, a law-abiding citizen. But then again, Progressives don’t understand the true meaning of Freedom also requires self-responsibility.
As Bearing Arms points out, talk like this drives liberals crazy – it is clear that they do believe that only the Government should have the means of force. Yeah, that’s worked out so well all through history for the non-elites. Progressives want the general public to believe that they 1) must ask government for permission and 2) the Second Amendment is all about hunting. Neither is true.
“…keep and bear arms.” means military and the citizens of the day did own military grade arms. The Founders were very particular of their wording – if they truly meant something else, they would have said such.
Could Bill Gates afford an Ford class aircraft carrier?
(H/T: HuffPo via Bearing Arms)
