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In reply to the discussion: Gun Laws And What The Second Amendment Intended - Seattle Times [View all]JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)as about the founding fathers' profound distrust of a standing army. They abhorred the idea, feeling that the mere existence of such a thing was an invitation for national leadership to go to war. Witness the Madeleine Albright saying "What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?"
So concerned were the founders about preventing a standing army that the constitution prohibits any allocation of funds for army purposes to be for a period of greater than two years. Boy, what a joke we have made of that proposition!
Interestingly, the founders had no such reservations about a permanent navy, and placed no such constitutional restrictions on naval funding.
"Surprisingly, there is not a single word about an individual right to a gun for self-defense in the notes from the Constitutional Convention"
Which is completely irrelevant, because the Supreme Court has ruled conclusively and unequivocally that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is specifically an individual right.