05-20-2019, 03:46 PM
(05-20-2019, 11:58 AM)fredtoast Wrote: No. The militia was needed to fight Indians and foreign enemies.
The Constitution makes it clear that treason in punishable by death, so I don't see how you could argue they were protecting the peoples right to commit an offense that was punishable by death.
I can argue that based upon the writings of the framers putting the 2A into context as being a bulwark against tyranny.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR