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In reply to the discussion: The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun [View all]Augiedog
(2,602 posts)rights was promulgated. This was an era of Native American xenophobia and a time of even greater fear of slave uprisings. But the greatest intellectual fear, the most powerful fear was that of a king like federal rule. Some of that history included farmers assaulting government institutions after the war due to their farms being taken in mortgage defaults while they were fighting the war in defense of the very people who took their farms. These farmers came back armed and skilled in combat, a fearful combination for those who wanted to rule their states. History is never what we want it to be, but sometimes it matters why who did what to whom and why they did it. States then, just like today, want to be free of federal intervention and force. The bill of rights was a promised measure to alleviate those fears states had.
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