Sallow
The Big Bad Wolf.
In the 1789 debate in Congress on James Madison's proposed Bill of Rights, Elbridge Gerry argued that a state militia was necessary: "to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia in order to raise and army upon their ruins."Funny thing is our founding fathers were trying to get away from an overbearing tax happy government... In that context ya, the individual had the right to bear arms against a government trying to control them.
The funny thing history is repeating itself... Damn those founding father were a brilliant group of fellas.
As an Indian I am damn thankful they fled incestuous Europe to here... And brought firearms with them.
Us Indians would still be playin around with stupid sticks, dirt, rocks and sinew.
There's nothing in the Constitution of the United States that advocates in the slightest the use of arms against the government.
Nothing at all.
Ex-Chief Justice Warren Burger in Parade Magazine
And?
It was thought that militias were less likely to "trample" the rights of fellow Americans. After the war of 1812, however, we pretty much raised a "standing army" under federal control. What we have now is a professional military.