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This retired award winning teacher of High School History (American and World History) says that the Founding Fathers were quite explicit in their writings about the final published version of the Second Amendment and you should stop worrying and quibbling about it because it really has nothing to do with firearms at all.
It has everything to do with the power of the government.
George Washington was a certified gun nut. He owned over FIFTY very high quality, expensive firearms. Thomas Jefferson, when writing to a nephew about overcoming his weak physical appearance suggested a daily walk that included a gun for target shooting, “To put a SPRING IN YOUR STEP.”
George Mason posited that the “militia consists of ALL THE PEOPLE, except for a few public officials.”
The ignorant and frankly stupid liberals who constantly state that “militia” is what is now termed the National Guard and that it must be restricted to the specific weapons in use at that time. Ignoring that the National Guard wasn’t even created until 1903. Were the Founders talking about that concept they’d have been referring to the Tories loyal to King George!
Then these fool’s… ignorant of our History try to insist that since AR-15’s weren’t conceived of by the Founders, the weapons must be restricted to what was used during the American Revolution.
Except that the technology advanced rapidly during the war allowing faster loading and increased accuracy over much longer distances. See the explanation below concerning the Girandoni semiautomatic rifle that was developed 12 years before the Second Amendment was ratified. That rifle would eventually be carried on the expedition of Lewis & Clark. Used to bring down a Moose to feed the expedition members.
When I taught AP American Government, I always had my students read Federalist 46 written by James Madison. In it, he said that our newly formed nation was superior to the European monarchies because of the Second Amendment, as it allows the forcible overthrow of a tyrannical regime.
You see, if the INFANTRY uses it, the PEOPLE MUST HAVE IT TOO…. BUT IN GREATER NUMBERS!




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