Why oh why did the writers of the U.S. constitution put the in the second amendment “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state” The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. A reasonable person would ask the question why put into the amendment anything about a well regulated militia if the writer(s) of the second amendment wanted any Tom, Dick, and Harriet to have weapons. Why not just say so.
Unfortunately despite giving out degrees from prestigious universities we seem to know so little about our history.
I can pretty much guess accurately that most of Americans do not know of Shay’s rebellion and that the militia had to break into the Armory to get guns.
Now I’m pretty sure that the founding fathers of the United States knew about Cromwell and he had his Army well armed keeping the populous under his thumb. Ya think that why there might have been among the among the early leaders of America that they had a healthy distrust of a large standing army that was heavily armed.
Ya think that maybe the second amendment to the constitution was a compromise to protect the nation while not having a large heavily armed standard army.
*** We have had gun control in America for years. Tommy guns were all but outlawed in the United States by having huge licenses on owning a Tommy gun. In the western towns there were ordinances against carrying guns in town ( in the Western movies when the marshal or the sherif asks the cowboys to turn in their guns.it was based on actual ordinances).
***I would think that it would be a good idea if supreme court justices hired law clerks who were English majors and history majors when getting their Bachelor degrees.
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