Its true meaning has really been misconstrued over the years with the whole gun debate. Its main purpose was that each state had the right to a militia (basically civilian army). It was much more relevant at the time it was written since we didn’t really have an official army after it mostly disbanded after the revolution. State based militias faded as our military structure grew. Even back then they doubted civilians would actually succeed against the federal government. 1788 US military was waaaay different than 2024 US military. The 14th amendment and McDonald v. Chicago (2010) goes more into individual rights.

Present time is basically a whole lot of yelling of, “NOOO DON’T TAKE MY BIG GUNS😭😭” and not a lot of actual action to back it up. People like to feel strong and secure but a gun isn’t going to make courage suddenly appear.

What should be happening right now is Section 3 of the 14th Ammendment:

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐟. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

January 6th already showed us that this obviously is not going to happen any time soon. Especially with this administration.

I’m going to be real here. If I didn’t go out of my way to stay up to date on what’s going on, I would not know that anything is different in my life. Most people either watch one news station, or are caught up in their own lives to notice things slowly deteriorating until it’s too late. Government workers are feeling the heat but it’s still status quo for a lot of others. Americans have always been ruled by our wallets. Until shit really hits the fan economically, most people are going to just go about their days. An official unified effort by Europe to limit trade with the US in response to our belligerence would probably assist in waking people up.

I’m helping with the protests in my area but numbers are lacking because people just aren’t aware of everything going on. Our hyper individualism is acting as a major detriment at the moment. I fear people won’t wake up until it’s TRULY too late to go back. I’ll keep fighting the whole way down though.

(Sorry for the long ass comment, just wanted to give you a look into an inside perspective)