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UT: The history of the Second Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
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When the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, we should remember that a musket could fire one to three or four rounds per minute, requiring the gunman to stop between each shot and reload gunpowder, add a patch and a ball, use the ramrod to clean the barrel, and then seat the round bullet properly. Oh, and fill the flashpan with gunpowder. There was no standing army. The amendment reads, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” |
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MarkHamTownsend
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Too bad the Heller case stipulated that the 2A does cover modern firearms as well.
The 1st Amendment covers radio, tv, Internet and modern communication devices. As weapons technologies progressed, new weapons also became protected.
The Winchester repeater was the "assault rifle" of the 19th century. It was protected, just as is the AR-15 is in today's world.
And this business about associating the WA with slavery is a bunch of stiersheisse. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
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| "WA" should read 2A. I hate fat fingers!!!!!! ! |
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| Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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