The 2nd Amendment EMPOWERS Chicago state and local police to resist the Feds...
"A well regulated militia" is the very first phrase of the 2nd Amendment, it can't be any more clear than that!
None other than Fox 32 local news of Chicago has reported that Chicago police have been tear gassed by ICE agents:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/onCvjvWN7zA
While the NRA and gun rights enthusiasts argue that the 2nd amendment is all about individual rights to carry weapons, in fact, the framers of the Constitution debated about what States might be able to do to resist a MONARCHICAL president using their armed forces to trample the rights of citizens of a State being invaded by the government.
As stated in Federalist Paper No. 46:
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the State governments must clearly have the advantage.
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should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States... the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand.
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and where the sentiments of several adjoining States happened to be in unison, would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly be willing to encounter
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Plans of resistance would be concerted[. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole.
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The only refuge left for those who prophesy the downfall of the State governments is the visionary supposition that the federal government may previously accumulate a military force for the projects of ambition.
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the traitors should, throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for the extension of the military establishment;
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it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger.
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Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors
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Either the mode in which the federal government is to be constructed will render it sufficiently dependent on the people, or it will not. On the first supposition, it will be restrained by that dependence from forming schemes obnoxious to their constituents. On the other supposition, it will not possess the confidence of the people, and its schemes of usurpation will be easily defeated by the State governments, who will be supported by the people.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed46.asp
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