Lexington and Concord were battles in the Civil War?
Good to know.......................
I'm going to rate your post on our scale an 8.
You've said way more seran things.
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You seem to be pretty hip on slaughtering history there. The Second Amendment argument has nothing to do without the Revolutionary War, nor does stopping psychotic people from continuing the possess firearms have any impact on our country's ability to defend itself from foreign threats as your side seems to imply.
Yeah I’m with PB & Methais in having a difficult time translating your retard speak.
Give us clarification on this double negative. Are you saying the purpose of the Second Amendment had nothing to do with the founders’ experience from the Revolutionary War?Quote:
The Second Amendment argument has nothing to do without the Revolutionary War
You didn’t read about Concord & Lexington, did you? I’ll summarize it for you. The very first thing the British tried to do in order to quell the rebellion is to seize control of all the firearms from the colonists. Kinda makes sense when you rub your two brain cells to think about it… It would have been impossible for the USA to exist & fight a war of independence against a tyrannical government (Great Britain) without guns.
Basic causality seems to escape your ability to wrap your head around the subject. Do you have anything backing up your claim that the signatories of the Constitution wrote the Second Amendment due to what happened in the last few example you listed? I presume you're extrapolating without evidence as usual.
Sure. There is plenty of evidence on that topic, but probably the best is from Alexander Hamilton. He wrote this in Federalist papers which predates the Bill of Rights:
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It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.
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If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.