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Originally Posted by mikesinner
What an idiot. Any high school kid knows the right to bear arms was put in place so we could have a standing citizen army to defend ourselves during a time of war when our nation was just emerging from foreign rule.
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Clearly your HS failed to educate you
A standing army and the right to bear arms are two different things. The right to bear arms was put in place to protect the citizens from an over encroaching government so something like Nazi Germany or Solvent Union would never happen in the US.
Our founding fathers new that politicians and rulers would always want to chip away at liberty and there could/would come a time where the citizens must stand up against the government. We are a far far far way away from that.
An unarmed person is a subject an armed person is a citizen.