The second amendment supports the first. Without the second amendment, the first could not be guranteed. It's fine for politicians to sign a constitution promising the right of expression, but what's to keep that right from being taken away? The power of an armed citizenry. It's just common sense. Patrick Henry was a lawyer and he KNEW how unscrupulous lawyers and politicians were. Without the Bill of Rights, we'd have had an American monarchy within a generation. The right to bear arms wasn't inserted into the constitution by accident or connivance...it is integral to the whole.

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