07-04-2016, 07:53 PM
stanc Wrote:...then why isn't there something to that effect in the 2nd Amendment? Why does it only address security of the State, and not security of the individual?Because the writers of the Bill and the folks that voted for it, having just fought a bloody war to through off the yoke of a tyranniical government that was bleeding th dry, viewed the right to bear arms as patently obvious.
They also new first-hand the costs of even a successful insurrection.
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