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Originally Posted by tony286
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/21...mendment-lies/
Right-wing resistance to meaningful gun control is driven, in part, by a false notion that America?s Founders adopted the Second Amendment because they wanted an armed population that could battle the U.S. government. The opposite is the truth, but many Americans seem to have embraced this absurd, anti-historical narrative.
The reality was that the Framers wrote the Constitution and added the Second Amendment with the goal of creating a strong central government with a citizens-based military force capable of putting down insurrections, not to enable or encourage uprisings. The key Framers, after all, were mostly men of means with a huge stake in an orderly society, the likes of George Washington and James Madison.
President George Washington, as Commander-in-Chief, leading a combined force of state militias against the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.
The men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 weren?t precursors to France?s Robespierre or Russia?s Leon Trotsky, believers in perpetual revolutions. In fact, their work on the Constitution was influenced by the experience of Shays? Rebellion in western Massachusetts in 1786, a populist uprising that the weak federal government, under the Articles of Confederation, lacked an army to defeat.
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Besides, you're changing the subject as usual, I answered you on the idea of what a Militia is, you quote this ass hat that didn't read the constitution as the Supreme Court did.
The idea behind Militia's is that everyone is considered a militia. You do know that everyone in the US is required to serve the countries military?
It wasn't till 1903 till Militias were replaced by the national guard and I've seen them in action first hand, I'm keeping my guns. They will come to your home and tell you have to leave by their order, I will point a gun at their face and tell them to fuck off and that I know my rights and they don't have the authority without martial law to do that, FUCK THEM!!!
Again, when the 2nd amendment was written, it included everyone!
Go ahead debate using leftist bullshit written last month, I'll use the words of the constitution framers every time.
and please don't go on with that bullshit about a assault weapons, what exactly is an assault weapon? I've got my first BB Gun when I was 7, first rifle when I was 10, first pistol when I was 15 and shot every manner of firearm there is, from a Thompson Machine gun to flint lock horse pistols, Mac-10's to Ak-47's and AR-15's to M14's. of those firearms, I can do more damage with the M14 probably because of the accuracy and power of the round, a hunting round 30.06. , and of these guns, the Thompson I can't own and the AK I can't own, they want the AR-15, yet it doesn't do anything the M14 doesn't and is a smaller round, people that write this propaganda know JACK SHIT about guns.
BTW, the flint locks can be loaded with Magnesium Pellets and when fired the pellets ignite from the friction in the air to create whats called dragons breathe, you think a AR-15 does a lot of damage?
This is from a shot gun, it can be used in a flint lock very easily