RE: Guns are NOT toys!
June 29, 2016 at 9:41 am
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2016 at 9:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 29, 2016 at 2:23 am)Gawdzilla Wrote:(June 28, 2016 at 11:26 pm)RetiredArmy Wrote: Well, ok, I'll bite... Keep the government out of it. A system where the government supplies the guns is a system where the government could someday NOT supply the guns. That's the entire premise of the second amendment, to prevent tyranny.
No, it's not. The 2A was meant to allow people to assemble for militia training.
Meh, they could already -assemble- (see the first), but a gaggle of people standing around bitching does not a militia make. They needed arms. To what end, you may ask? Oh...just to fight the perceived tyranny of their oppressors. Now, if I wanted to take a cynical route and disagree, I wouldn't talk about assembly, I'd say that the purpose of the second was to provide those in power with the military force required to impose their own will....without having to go through the trouble of paying for professional soldiers out of pocket. Wiki has this to say
Quote:Early English settlers in America viewed the right to arms and/or the right to bear arms and/or state militias as important for one or more of these purposes (in no particular order):[51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]b-mine
enabling the people to organize a militia system.
participating in law enforcement;
deterring tyrannical government;[59]
repelling invasion;
suppressing insurrection, allegedly including slave revolts;[60][61][62]
facilitating a natural right of self-defense.
Yeah, I can see that one as being especially important to the people who wrote the document, what with being thoroughly outnumbered.
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