FrontSight wrote: Mon Nov 22, 2021 11:43 am
Philosophically speaking, a government needs to have a monopoly on violence. When armed militias are present, yet the National Guard isn't; the Governor is not doing his/her job.
Here's your problem. The Constitution promises a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Thus the government cannot hold that monopoly, because power derives from the consent of the governed. The Second Amendment implies that violence is a protected right of the states, through state militias . The National Guard is the current legal incarnation of those, through the Militia Act of 1903 - not the illegally self-organized paramilitary groups that claim the name. OTOH, the Fourteenth Amendment implies that violence is a protected right of the people that cannot be infringed by the states, incorporated per McDonald v. Chicago.
All of which means the people have an individual right to arms - but the state has a collective right to organize the militia, and you don't. Of course, IANAL.
CDFingers wrote:
Let's not forget to focus on the root cause of this, not the carrying of guns in public.
Fear is the root cause. The world has allowed the internet to be used freely to create divisions and stoke the fires thereof. We see the result in this stochastic terrorism that looks like self defense. Sure, he was threatened. He would not have been threatened had he not gone there carrying a gun, eh.
Fear creates the fertile field wherein fascism grows. That's where we should focus. They're afraid of the Fourteenth Amendment. The fear can be diffused by showing how making it fair for everyone is a good thing.
Tall order, I know.
CDFingers
Absolutely this. Fear is the mind killer.