“A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
紀律優良的民兵部隊對自由州的安全是必要的，因此，人民持有並攜帶武器的權利不可受侵害。”
時年17歲的裏滕豪斯是民兵，合規攜槍，為商家守護，被迫開槍。捍衛了個人的生命權力。
這個槍聲，也堪比列克星敦獨立戰爭第一槍。
如果政府不作為，人民有權自衛，直至解散不作為的政府。
美國獨立宣言：
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
為了保障這些權利，人類才在他們之間建立政府，而政府之正當權力，是經被治理者的同意而產生的。
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
還是美國傳統，同樣是那部《憲法》，最早要把南方的奴隸隻算五分之三個自由人。這是否也是美國傳統呢？更諷刺的是，那麽多看重憲法第二修正案的人，大多是對憲法第一修正案中的第一句中政教分離，頗有微詞的。美國1797年簽署的《的黎波裏條約》中明文敘述：美利堅合眾國政府不是，在任何意義上，建立在基督教基礎之上的。（the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion）guns and bible，兩個在美國似乎分不開的事物。
“A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
紀律優良的民兵部隊對自由州的安全是必要的，因此，人民持有並攜帶武器的權利不可受侵害。”
時年17歲的裏滕豪斯是民兵，合規攜槍，為商家守護，被迫開槍。捍衛了個人的生命權力。
這個槍聲，也堪比列克星敦獨立戰爭第一槍。
如果政府不作為，人民有權自衛，直至解散不作為的政府。
美國獨立宣言：
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
為了保障這些權利，人類才在他們之間建立政府，而政府之正當權力，是經被治理者的同意而產生的。
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
