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Originally Posted by mikesinner
The right to bare arms was established so that the average citizen would be armed to help beat back the British invaders. That was the one and only reason it was put into the constitution. Without it we would still be subjects of the crown.
You can see what it has done to our society in modern times.
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"Codification of the right to keep and bare arms into the Bill of Rights was influenced by a fear that the federal government would disarm the people in order to impose rule through a standing army or select militia, since history had shown taking away the people's arms and making it an offense for people to keep them was the way tyrants eliminated resistance to suppression of political opponents."