Firearms

[Tiberius]

But here's something I think we have to agree to disagree on. I don't think it's fair to compare the Bill of Rights, which were beginning to be penciled almost immediately after the Constitution was ratified, to amendments much later on in history. The original document was not interested so much in addressing the people's rights, but more to establish a strong central government. The Bill of Rights was the government's way in securing the American people's rights.

They're considered "amendments", but hell, there were people and states objecting to even ratifying the Constitution without the promise of a Bill of Rights. They're so close to one another, to compare the Bill of Rights to say, the 20th amendment, is unfair, in my opinion.

But I'm not comparing them. I'm just stating the fact that they are amendments, and they were not part of the original constitution. To class them as such would be historically and factually inaccurate. Whilst it's true that the rights held in the Bill of Rights were popular at the time, they were not in the original constitution.

Indeed, the fact that the constitution was ratified without them, despite some objections, shows that the majority of ratifiers were not too concerned with them not being there. After all, they had the ability to add amendments, which they did within a couple of years.

None of that affects my actual argument.