The right to protect oneself

All human beings enjoy a "right" to life, I believe the right descends from God almighty, others believe the right to life in inherent in human beings simply by virtue of existence. It matters not in the proof I will lay out for the second amendment being just what it says and nothing less.

The "right" to life exists without government, meaning even in an anarchy situation, human beings would still have a fundamental "right" to their own existence. Many in America feel that the government exists to provide rights, but this cannot be the case in a free society. In a free society, it is the people who give power to the government, whereas in a closed society it is the reverse.

Therefore, whether living under a government, or living under no government, a man has the right to protect his own life from those who would otherwise attempt to take his life or to threaten his life and thereby cast him into slavery.

Optional in the least and imperative in the most, the father of a house must have at his avail some means by which to protect his flock. Should he decide that his best method for defending not only his own life, but that of his wife and children may best be achieved by the ownership of firearms, he must be free to acquire such weaponry.

Any government said to be "of the people, for the people, and by the people" must never labor to disarm any man seeking only to defend his right to life and property. Just as the criminal chooses an unarmed target to victimize, so too does a government. An unarmed man is nothing more than a man reliant on another for his own defense, and one at the will of another who wishes to enslave him in exchange for providing his "protection".

In short, those among us who wish to disarm the citizenry seek nothing more than a dependent mass of people who they can enslave by trading protection for taxation. Not coincidentally, those who object to the taxation will have been left no recourse by which to "alter or abolish" the government which has become destructive to itself and its people.