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UT: The history of the Second Amendment
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When the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, we should remember that a musket could fire one to three or four rounds per minute, requiring the gunman to stop between each shot and reload gunpowder, add a patch and a ball, use the ramrod to clean the barrel, and then seat the round bullet properly. Oh, and fill the flashpan with gunpowder. There was no standing army. The amendment reads, “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.” |
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MarkHamTownsend
(11/26/2020)
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Too bad the Heller case stipulated that the 2A does cover modern firearms as well.
The 1st Amendment covers radio, tv, Internet and modern communication devices. As weapons technologies progressed, new weapons also became protected.
The Winchester repeater was the "assault rifle" of the 19th century. It was protected, just as is the AR-15 is in today's world.
And this business about associating the WA with slavery is a bunch of stiersheisse. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(11/26/2020)
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| "WA" should read 2A. I hate fat fingers!!!!!! ! |
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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