Not really. The back story is fascinating.
http://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2...aveholders
http://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2...aveholders
Quote:Thanks to a long-time Black Ink reader and commenter, Paul Udstrand, my attention was recently called to a long, fascinating 1998 law review article by a law professor who specializes in gun issues which argues that the Second Amendment was added to the Constitution to reassure white slave-owning southerners that the federal government would not use its Constitutional power over state militias to disarm the southern states and leave them vulnerable to a slave revolt.