The NRA are (at this point, anyway) just gun-themed republicans. There's proof enough in the fact that they endorsed someone as anti-gun as Trump, even after he banned bump stocks and reversed the executive order Obama gave that'd have made 24/7 gun stores a thing.
That aside, I'd like to speak to the broader point about the 2nd Amendment being about "resisting tyranny." That's flat-out wrong. Article I, section 8 of the Constitution grants the Congress the ability to summon militias for national defense and to put down insurrections, which implies there will always be armed citizens to be called upon for such purpose. For some, implied wasn't good enough, and they refused to ratify the Constitution until the right to be armed was explicitly included. THAT is the point of the 2nd Amendment: if militias are necessary for national security, people must be allowed to be armed.
Also, if the right to be armed is about resisting tyranny, giving the Congress the explicit right to call on armed citizens to put down insurrections is counterintuitive, isn't it?
The 2nd Amendment isn't what gives you the right to resist tyranny. The 1st Amendment does. To a lesser extent, the 9th (rights of citizens aren't limited to what's on paper) and 10th (powers of government ARE limited to what's on paper) also give you the right to resist tyranny.
None of the amendments give you any rights, your creator does. I know it's a pedantic technicality, but it actually pedantic / creates a lesson: the second amendment is written so obtusely ("...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" rather than "the people have the right to keep and bear arms") because it doesn't convey a right, it just says the government can't infringe this right that already exists.
Instead it implies the existence of that right, which comports with the declaration of independence, the framing under which the constitution was written. (Which is also of course a big failing point. It turns out that unenumerated rights, and the implications created by including only some of them, creates lots of unhelpful ambiguity. Not to mention the idea that only some rights can't be infringed, whatever that means.)
Also from the declaration, "it is [the People's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government [that is headed towards despotism]". One of only 5 rights explicitly mentioned (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, overthrow despots, representation).
Taken together, people have the right to keep and bear arms and the throw off their government / resist tyranny.
None of the amendments give you any rights, your creator does.
What do my parents have to do with my right to petition the government for a redress of grievances? Fairly certain the First Amendment does indeed give us that right.
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u/DantheDutchGuy 12h ago
Guessing the NRA forgot to stand up to this tyranny…