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During Thursday’s House Oversight Committee hearing regarding “Privacy Protections and the Second Amendment,” ATF Director Robert Cekada said the Second Amendment was written so citizens could “protect themselves from a tyrannical government.
”Cekada if he “found it notable” that the Founding Fathers made sure to place the protection of gun rights — aka, the Second Amendment — right after the protection of speech contained in the First Amendment. Crane then asked, “Why do you believe the Founders wanted to give the citizens the right to defend themselves?
” Cekada responded, “I think, at that time in particular, the citizenry did not have a guarantee that the government would protect them and they wanted to have the opportunity to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. ”to Federalist 46, where Founding Father James Madison — the author of the Second Amendment — stressed that one of the strongest checks on federal tyranny —is an armed citizenry.
He boiled down differences between Americans and their European counterparts by explaining that Americans could unite to stop a federal government intent on using military force to topple State power. Disarmed Europeans had no such option.l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts.
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