Is the Second Amendment check against tyranny obsolete? :: 06/19/2011

Larry Hicks of the York Dispatch is shocked, shocked that a local politician expressed an understanding of the insurrectionary component of the Second Amendment.

"We must be able not only to hunt but to protect ourselves from an overbearing government that does not do the will of the people," State Rep. Scott Perry told attendees at a Harrisburg Second Amendment rally last month.

The columnist's reaction?

"Maybe he got a little bit carried away with himself. Maybe he forgot he's living in 2011, not 1770."

So I guess Larry Hicks is wiser than the Founders? Does he really think the Second Amendment is about duck hunting?

This is what the Declaration of Independence has to say:

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.

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