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Originally Posted by BigDeal
My belief is that the people who wrote the constitution would be rolling over in their graves if they knew what protection they gave gun buyers and owners in todays age.....In that time they where wanting people to own guns to protect against foreign invaders....and people hunted more.....
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Actually this is incorrect. As much as we can feel badly about this incident, especially with the children. The statement is totally wrong.
Most people at the time the constitution was written had an intimate knowledge about how a corrupt government tried to prevent their overthrow by denying the people a means to protect themselves against the government itself. The discussion was like this: when this government becomes corrupt itself, or individuals within the government become corrupt; the people will be armed. This will enable someone to take the idiot out. It was an approval for the ability to destroy the problem. Thus, the second amendment.
How soon we forget that many of the battles of the revolutionary war were, in some way, about the shortage of gunpowder. The main trust throughout the war was the attempt of the English to take away the gunpowder that the colonies had, and prevent them from obtaining more.
The English had a long history of mistreatment of the American Colonies, as well as other colonies around the world; they had reasons to fear what the people wanted to do to them. We were lucky to have the French as friends during this period.
JR
