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Originally Posted by Dozer523
I'm not sold that they [the founders] intended guns to be used against the new government . . . Themselves
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I respectfully disagree. Guns were already being used against, and by, the colonists well before the Constitution was ratified. The founders knew full well what was involved in throwing off the shackles of an oppressive government, having just done that, when it fails to accede to the source of its power (the governed). I think to assume otherwise would be selling the founders short.
The despot wants the monopoly of force.
The 2nd Amendment doesn't 'grant' anything, it merely codifies a natural right, that of self-defense, whether it be in defense of one's home, or against an oppressor.