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Originally Posted by cutthemdown
The right to bear arms wasn't written with a specific threat in mind IMO. Sure they had ideas of what the threats would be but they wrote it to protect gun rights for us for a reason. The world is a dangerous place sometimes and a man has a right to protect himself from other people, other govts, wild animals. Also a gun is a tool for hunting and I'm sure that was also on their minds. So they wrote it into the Constitution because they felt it would be a right eventually govt would try to infringe on. Looks like they were pretty smart.
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I was responding to your comment:
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No DenverBrit the sane argument has nothing to do with fighting a war againt our own military.
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Which was incorrect. The US military was very much in mind when the second amendment was drafted.
Several States also drafted language in 1776 and clarified it further.
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Pennsylvania: That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination, to, and governed by, the civil power (1776)
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The Founders saw standing armies in time of peace as 'dangerous to Liberty.'
We have not only allowed 'standing armies' in peace time, but built a military industrial complex that has become monolithic.