The Second Amendment or Freedom From Tyranny

 If you could write some statement and find some way to provide protection (absolute in nature) from tyranny.....then you wouldn't need the Second Amendment.  That's really the long standing problem when you drill down into this whole discussion.

In the 1760s.....tyranny was some statement that you uttered in various ways, after having to deal with the British system of law in the colonies.  There just aren't 'protections' that exist....to give you some safe feeling against tyranny.  

So we edged through the 1800s...with tyranny always a step or two away (particularly in American western history, or the Civil War period), thinking over what would give us some chance of survival. 

As we arrived in the 1900s....tyranny was discussed in various other ways.  

If you live in a number of American cities today....tyranny has been replaced by fear of crime or threats.  You could be on the way home, and have some wild human creature with the idea of harming you at the gas station or super-market.  The Second Amendment is the only protection in this case.

This entire argument....to rid the nation of the Second Amendment?  You'd have to go and refer to tyranny, and build something to protect people from that.  Good luck on that search.  

The Normal Strategy of Picking a Vice-President

 Up until the 1990s, you (as the Presidential candidate) picked a VP who was mostly unknown to the bulk of America after the primary system.  Even in the case of Johnson being selected by JFK.....beyond Texas, the vast majority of Americans didn't know the guy.

The chief strategy was that you'd pick someone who was mostly unknown....not likely to create a fake national crisis....not having affairs to turn into scandals....didn't really cheat much on taxes....and didn't really know much about world politics.  

You might admit in 50-percent of cases....selecting a VP meant meeting the guy/gal for the first time and your full knowledge level was enough to put on a 3 x 5 inch index card.

So here is the problem of Biden-Harris.  Joe Biden needs 'lift' and figures that his VP ought to be out....actually working.  The script to the VP job?  You are supposed to attend funerals, cabinet meetings, golf at least twice a week, and mostly attend parties in the district.  You can consume a vast amount of alcohol, and wink at the opposite sex.  Joe wants more, and Harris is unable to deliver.  Why Joe needs more?  Well....he can't deliver.  He's basically acting like the VP job under President Obama.

What Harris should do?  Nothing.  I'd dismiss most of her staff....hire 3 or 4 unknown folks (college kids) and just do exactly what VP Biden did for eight years.  

Chances of her running in 2024?  Just about zero.  So it doesn't really matter.