quote:Originally posted by THE Franta: Whats holding back current ammendments are the gun manufactorers.
An Amendment has to be ratified by 3/4 of the states to become a part of the const. So, basically, twelve states can stop ANY amendment from passing. Can you possibly imagine the Southern States or mountain states voting for anything REMOTELY similar to a repeal of any part of the 2nd Amendment?
As to the "National Guard" argument, that argument has risen in the last twenty years. Almost no serious anti-gun group uses it because const. scholars of all ideology have agreed that it holds no const. weight. It simply was not the intent of the FF (that's founding fathers, not Fantastic Four) to make it a national guard. The intent was to allow non-governmental groups to have guns to prevent a rise in tyranny. Think about the political climate of the times. The FF wanted to assure that the government was a government of the people by leaving a little fear of the masses in the hearts of the elite (which was suprising seeing as how the FF WERE to be be the elite).
