We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, is still our governing document. In reality, however, the Constitution has been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded to such an extent that what we are left with today is but a shadow of the robust document adopted more than two centuries ago. As John W. Whitehead warns in this episode of On Target, if constitutional illiteracy is not soon remedied, freedom in America will be doomed.
the Second Amendment was intended to guarantee the right of the people to keep and bear arms. This amendment was intended to give the citizens in this country the means to resist tyrannical government. Yet while gun ownership has been recognized by the US Supreme Court as an individual citizen right Americans remain powerless to defend themselves against swat-team raids and government agents armed to the teeth with military weapons better suited for the battlefield as such this amendment has been rendered null and void.