The Militia Acts of 1792 and 1795 clarified what the 2nd Amendment means.

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41. Our country is blind to its own history...

The 2nd amendment was created specifically because the founders had a stong fear of a standing national army that could potentially overthrow a democratic government, and so they supported the idea of state militias. When the amendment was being written, the original wording by Madison, and I would strongly urge each of you to read this, offended the likes of people like Patrick Henry who urged Madison to revise the wording because of the implications it would have to southern Militias, which, at the time, were slave patrols. There’s plenty of documentation to support that, mainly in the form of correspondence between the two. Make no mistake, the preservation of these slave patrols had a huge impact on the 2nd Ammendment wording. That fact needs to be acknowledged and we should be educating our children to that fact.

The individual right to own guns was not established until the Heller decision. We have allowed the gun lobby to corrupt and to bastardize any and every attempt to regulate weapons in this country. When will enough deaths be enough?

I’m a gun owner...I’ve grown up around guns and hunting...we have long passed the rubicon on gun regulations in this country.