How is Meatloaf's 'Id Do Anything for Love' like the 2nd Amendment?

[jmg257]

35. I think Hamilton was 1 of the 1st..the militia is much more of a defensive notion against tyranny

than an offensive (& treasonous) one.

"this will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.''...
If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism, what need of the militia? If there should be no army, whither would the militia... direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a project, to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power, and to make them an example of the just vengeance of an abused and incensed people?

Hamilton Federalist 29


Then again, it took over a hundred years for his notion of "a selective militia" to come to be, and the whole "no standing army" thing of course turned out to be a huge sham.