I beg to differ with you, LH. The Second Amendment has deeper reasoning behind it than Indian raids or the occasional rabid painter.

I don't have the references to hand but there were some very telling remarks made by Adams at the time this was being hammered out. They could not have predicted the huge imbalance caused by today's military budget. In the day, an Army was a bunch of men with guns, some cannon and some drill. The same kind or order of armament any band of citizens could get. This is no longer true. But the Amendment was certainly written against that background, and with the idea in mind to provide some ultimate recourse against despotism, in the event all the other safeguards failed.

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