Primary source: Second Amendment (1791) – U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights
Court Decisions: District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)
Academic and Historical Sources: Federalist No. 29 (Hamilton) and No. 46 (Madison), Commentaries on the Constitution (1833)...

10/10 Let us teach, debate, and guard this sacred right—not with rage, but with reason. Not with fear, but with fidelity to the Republic, that it may endure beyond us.

9/10 Let us then speak with wisdom. We need not glorify violence to honor the Founders’ intent. We need not rewrite the past to understand its purpose.

8/10 It speaketh not only of defense—but of balance. So that Power be not hoarded by few, but held in trust by all, lest liberty decay and despotism take root.

7/10 It assumes regulation! Not of rights—but of ourselves. A well-regulated militia is not the absence of rules—it is the presence of civic virtue and lawful discipline.

6/10 Mark this well: The Second Amendment is not a call to rebellion, but a summons to vigilance. A People asleep invite tyranny. A People alert and united preserve liberty.

5/10 And what is a free State? Not a party. Not a mob. But a Society where the People rule themselves, not by the whim of despots, but through laws of their own making and defense of their own choosing.

4/10 The right to bear Arms is no gift from government—it is a natural right, recognized not invented in 1791. It is the right to defend one’s life, liberty, and home—sacred and unalienable.

3/10 The Founders feared standing armies more than frontier rifles. A Militia was the People bound by law, not loyal to kings or autocrats, but to their fellow countrymen. Accountability, not anarchy.

2/10 “A well regulated Militia…” — this doth not summon mobs nor mercenaries. It calls forth Citizens, disciplined and ready, to defend their community and country, not to sow chaos, but to guard peace.