189 the 2nd amend protects local control - editorialpinups

The second amendment.  Ask yourself these questions.  Why have the people of Iran of whom many have feared and not supported the religious zealots who have controlled the country since 1979?  In 1776, how did a bunch of ragtag farmers, guilds-men, preachers and politicians gain independence from a tyrannical government?

Try this question, why do governments want its citizenry to not own tools of self protection?

It is said that the United States was created by people who did not want to be controlled by governments.  The Pilgrims did not want their religion controlled by the King of England.  Such a fuss they put up they were given a boat and told to get lost.  They landed at Pilgrim Rock and were on their own.

Many others came and were on their own.  They got tools for survival.  Instrument to plant food, guns to not only hunt food but to protect themselves from predator animals and bad people.  

Step back for a second and define the different levels of local protection.  The movie “Terror on the Prairie” defines local as the local homestead in the wild west prairie.  In the TV Series “Little House on the Prairie” local is a mix of the farms and the fictitious village “Walnut Grove, Minnesota”.  Citizens would protect their homesteads and would then join together to protect their towns and villages.

The thirteen Colonies that would become the United States were the “local” in the definition of geopolitical sphere at the time.  In the 1981 movie “Stripes”, John Winger, played by Bill Murray, said

"We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts!"  It was that eviction that created the American idea of liberty and philosophy of self determination and a government structure that was not top down but consensus driven.

Because nearly every other government at the time had some type of royalty and top design, the colonists were able to see the abuse.  Through written history they also saw the anarchistic results of full blown national democracy.  They realized from their experience that local representation was the key to avoid a top down structure of government.  Their vision was that the higher up you went in the representation model the importance of creating what effectively is the organization based upon local representation.

To prevent the presidency from becoming a powerful top down position they guaranteed this by having the state governments present to the election of the president thirteen votes from the previous local level, the electoral college.  While this did have a factor of population balance, it was not such that one large city or groups of cities themselves could nullify the wishes of the rest of the states, only their state. That is, the interest of twelve states would not be controlled by a large city in one state.  Today that count is 51 votes for the president, one for each state and one for the District of Columbia. The president is the representation and enforcer of the rules passed by others along with powers granted by the Constitution.  This style of government had not been created in the past.

The two legislative bodies were originally defined as the representation of the people and the representation of the state governments since changed to a longer term representation of the people. Again, the representation determined by various levels of the local government.

The voting done at the local levels was done with the technology of the time starting with voice technology.  The asked you you told.  Secrecy was the problem.  Then pencil, paper, and humans to count changed that.  This created the secrecy, tally and also the backup.  Attempts at various forms of modern technologies occurred but never with the security or accuracy of the pencil, paper, and the counters. The Acme Voting Machine was created in 1880, pulling levers and presenting a count. There was no individual backup on these systems and malfunction was a risk. Then there is the punched card systems and the newer systems that were effectively computer based.  Some had backup and allowed for recounting. Others did not.

New technology tried has an intrusion problem.  The intrusion problem is not only day of voting but also historical storage and backup. For network and remote maintenance voting apparatus is connected to the internet.  The voting technology companies promise is that the computers during voting would be taken off the internet.  But when would they be out back on?  What logging is made available for to assure that the system was not put on the internet during voting?  What programming is made to assure votes are not changed?

I can go on with the various flaw points but I hope you get my drift.  Do the local polling places need all of this technology to count votes for an election?  Why do so many countries not use technology voting and why have so many abandoned it? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/electronic-voting-by-country

The second amendment “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.”  Why does the second amendment exist?

The second amendment exist to protect the local bodies, from the individual in their home, the home owners association to have a security force for protection, to the municipal police force to have weapons to protect from criminals, from the state to protect from thieves, thugs, and intruders, to all local bodies from a tyrannical governmental force.

Yes, there are risks, there are accidents, there is controversy, there is miscommunication, there are responsibilities.  These far outweigh a security provided for by a centralized governmental power that can eliminate you in a moment when you and your local units do not have the tools to defend yourself. There is also the personal responsibilities that our forefathers agreed to which we through birthright in this country and through legal assimilation into the United State sfabric agree to uphold

Ask them in Red China.  Ask them in Venezuela. Ask them in Iran. Ask them how free they are without a second amendment!