Second Amendment

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31. I don't know about that. IMO the founders in 1789 were concerned with...

being able to form a militia to guard against foreign powers, and with good reason as the Revolutionary War still recent history and the War of 1812 was still to come as England was determined to take it's colonies back.

The concern over indigenous people was there but fear of England was front burner stuff.

And to be honest, the Second Amendment was also aimed at enslaved people who had the temerity to want their freedom and therefore go fugitive.

Native Americans of course became a higher fear/priority once excessively cruel Andrew Jackson became president and began the wholesale removal of Natives to the Indian territories/Oklahoma (the trail of tears).

Of course after the Civil War, it ramped up again in the southwest, west, plains and northwest during the post Civil War campaigns against Geronimo, Victorio, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph and other warriors fighting existential battles for their homelands and lives against soldiers protecting treaty-breaking, white settlers.