The Second Amendment and John Adams

When I read these quotes, I had to share them.  So many think that the Second Amendment is a right for the states, or like the NRA, it is about hunting.

This could not be further from the truth.  Consider the words of John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers, was from Boston when the British army was used to disarm the citizens of Boston:

"Arms in the hands of individual citizens
may be used at individual discretion
for the defence of the country,
the over-throw of tyranny,
or in private self-defense."
-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: A DEFENSE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, at 475, (Philadelphia 1788)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.7D51

"Resistance to sudden violence,
for the preservation not only of my person,
my limbs and life,
but of my property,
is an indisputable right of nature
which I have never surrendered
to the public by the compact of society,
and which perhaps,
I could not surrender if I would.
Nor is there anything in the common law of England ... inconsistent with that right."
-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: BOSTON GAZETTE, September 5, 1763, The Works of John Adams, p.438 (Charles F. Adams ed., 1851).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.7B8A

How much more clear can it be regarding what those who wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were thinking when it was written.

Consider also the words of George Washington regarding the nature of government.

Until the return of Jesus the Messiah, we must be vigilant in protecting protecting the rights of the people.

BE