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Originally Posted by r00t
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"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Co-author of the Second Amendment
during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
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Read the context of the debate to which he was commenting, as is presented in the article. Let's not forget all the problems that the constitution didn't address at that time period, like it was a document given from God or something