I am so sickened by the number of gun deaths in this country and our bullheaded stubbornness to do anything about it. We need boldness to say, "Enough Already!" and put new legislation for gun control in place as Australia did years ago. We can fix this if we only have the moral fortitude to do so. Anyway, the mind started wondering what life would be like if the Second Amendment would have been about something else other tan guns. I hope you this gives you some food for thought today.
What If the Second Amendment Had Been About Dairy Cows?
Would we have abolished it by now?
Instead of stating , “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” what if our brand spanking new country already had put a militia (military) in place, but there was not yet a well regulated or organized method of collecting and distributing dairy products?
What if the Amendment had been written to state, “A well regulated dairy industry being necessary to the health of the free state, the right of the people to keep and raise dairy cows shall not be infringed?”
It would have been legal, and a protected right, for anyone and everyone to have as many cows in as many places as people wanted, right? But what if eventually, well regulated and safe dairy farms were established, enough so that people didn’t have to buy, raise, and milk their own cows any more for milk, cream, cheese and butter? Would die hard cattle owners say, “Nothing doing! The first 5 words of the amendment mean NOTHING! The fact that there are diary farms now has nothing to do with my right to own my own cows. Nothing will make me give up my cherished Bessie! You’ll have to pry her out of my cold, dead hands?”
What if there were so many cows overcrowding our cities that it became a health hazard? The waste went into the drinking water, and the smell! Oh, the smell! When cities tried to limit the number of cows a person could own, would cow owners rise up and just buy more before the legislation could be passed? Would the cattle brokers, who supplied both the dairy farms and the individuals, become so greedy that they lobbied to protect the rights of the individual cow owners? Would the Second Amendment extremists whine that the President was trying to take away their cows? Would the unregulated owning of cattle produce diseases that took the lives of our citizens, but the cattle lobby just pushed that much harder for our “right” to own as many cows as we wanted?
Or would sensible citizens see the folly of owning more cows than there were people living in an area and realize that the dairy farms were good and more than adequate, and finally say, ‘You know, we could really do without that Second Amendment?"