Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: A common question to both sides... [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Re: "Also, cite, not site." TY I'm an engineer with the requisite spelling and grammar deficits.
Would you please read The Federalist No. 46 and render your impression of it.
Some quotations in point being:
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
"On summing up the considerations stated in this and the last paper, they seem to amount to the most convincing evidence, that the powers proposed to be lodged in the federal government are as little formidable to those reserved to the individual States, as they are indispensably necessary to accomplish the purposes of the Union; and that all those alarms which have been sounded, of a meditated and consequential annihilation of the State governments, must, on the most favorable interpretation, be ascribed to the chimerical fears of the authors of them."