stop bringing up the founding fathers in gun arguments

[Daldolma]

Originally Posted by EvilMallet [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You fucking retard.

The people at large wanted to revolt because they didn't want to pay taxes for a war that had no part of (The Seven Years War, maybe you've heard of it?). They wanted people to have guns to increase the power of their militias, because that pretty much was the only military force we had. We don't have a militia now. We have military. You don't need guns , unless you plan on fighting our own soldiers, in which case:

The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. The Revolutionary War ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

The Second Amendment is wholly unrelated to the needs of the Revolutionary War. They didn't want an armed populace in order to defeat the British -- they already had defeated them. By 1784, the US had already established Regular Army infantry regiments. By 1791, the US had established a trained standing army.

Militia and armed populace was seen as a defense against tyranny and a guarantor of liberty. That may or may not be accurate, but that was the vision.