ARs...Help Me Understand

[willy]

When the second amendment was written it was written for one purpose and one purpose only. To guarantee the "People" would never be held hostage by an overbearing government or tyrannical ruler. Period.
That is why it is the second amendment and not the 6th or 7th.
It stood in importance to the Free People second only to the right of free speech and the right to assemble.
It guaranteed all the other rights enumerated in the Constitution. It was correctly assumed that someday the government would attempt to control the People as all governments and the people who are part of them always have done through history. And being the brilliant and practical men they were they also specifically stated that it was the right of the People to stop any such usurpation of the People's God given rights.
In it's day, the flintlock musket was the assault weapon of choice. Carried by all the militaries in the world, quick to reload, devastating fire power. Able to mount a fearsome and deadly bayonet.
In King Georges era civilians were not allowed to own such military weapons as they were solely for the Rulers troops.
Well times have certainly changed, the weapons of the military are no longer single shot flintlocks. And neither should the weapons owned by the People, in fact up until the control of the media by the Progressive/Socialist Agenda types, like our current President, Pelosi, Reid, Schummer etc. the People were always trusted with the same weapons with some exceptions as our military. Just not full auto assault weapons and explosive type munitions.
In fact there is a Civilian Marksmanship unit of the federal government in place even now that provides semi auto weapons to civilians for the purpose of maintaining a strong civilian cadre of well trained and well armed people.
We are watching in very quick steps the erosion of the Constitution by an unchecked out of balance centralized government.
Any government for example that can tell you you must buy a product and seize your property and put you in jail if you dont comply is so far out of the Constitution that anyone who cannot see that does not have a clue about being an American and what rights and responsibilities that brings forth.
Any government that can vote itself the power to seize an American Citizen and hold him indefinitely under the guise of national security or to kill an American Citizen for the same purpose, determined by only those in power at the time is capable of anything.
And there is literally only one thing that stands in the way of this government.
Only one thing that stands for the defense of the Liberties against such a government.
That is Free Men, armed with weapons suitable for doing so.
That is the sole purpose of the Second Amendment. It has nothing to do what so ever with hunting, target shooting, or simply home defense.
It is about power, and once you can disarm, the people there is nothing that can stand between you an absolute power.
If you need something to say to someone who cannot understand why you would want to have a semi auto rifle, just simply say "I am a Free Man, an American Citizen, and it is my duty to keep it so for myself, my children, my fellow Americans".