A very good book on the Second Amendment was written by Saul Cornell. It is A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America .j I found it to be very well researched and interesting. The gun nuts hated it, but the gun nuts lack understanding of context when it comes to historical studies. Interestingly the conclusion is that the Founders did not want to disarm the people, but they also saw the need for reasonable gun laws. When it came to resisting the authority of the federal government, the Founders made it extremely clear that the only way to do that via armed force was through the state militias, not individual actions.
Anything other than the state militias involving armed rebellion was treason and was put down more than once in the early years of the Republic.
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Borox, Cleric of Supremacy
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