But no matter what you say, you'll inevitably be hit with their bottom line, catch-all argument "but gunz are guaranteed in the CONTITOOSHIN, and cars AREN'T! Our divine Founding Fathers put gunz in the constitooshin because...blah blah blah...tyranny...blah blah blah...Nazi Germany...blah blah blah...Sparta Georgia...blah blah blah..."
*eyes*
Yeah, yeah. Well...
1. There is no evidence in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, or even in the Federalist Papers (aside from one sentence written by Madison that suggests it indirectly) that the Founders thought that guns were meant to be a defense against tyranny by the government.
2. There IS evidence in the Militia Acts that they were talking about private citizens owning arms for State MILITIAS when they wrote the 2nd Amendment, (In fact, the Militia Acts even MANDATE that men of a certain age MUST own a rifle for the purpose of serving in the State militias, and that the FEDERAL government will have control over the militias that supersedes State control.)
3. George Washington even USED the Militia Acts to use State Militias to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, which was a perfect test case of the 'Tree of Liberty/blood of Tyrants' doctrine these morons always spew...
4. Thomas Jefferson even created the first 'gun free zones' by BANNING WEAPONS from university campuses,
5. When they wrote the 2nd Amendment, they were talking about black powder muskets that even a professional soldier couldn't fire more that two or three times a minute. They might have thought twice if they'd known we'd end up with weapons that even a child can fire 50 times per second...and...
6. While the Founding Fathers were wise for their age, not everything they wrote in the Constitution and BoR is brilliant...like not giving women the right to vote, and counting African Americans as 3/5ths of a person (something the GOP conveniently forgot to read when they were reading the Constitution on the House floor in 2010)...
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