"Also, heavy weapons are not much use in street fighting within towns or cities, unless you're willing to destroy the city to get the enemy."

Which is what is happening in Allepo right now as I type this, which is what happened in Homs, the Balkans, Chechnya etc etc. Thing is, people will destroy everything in a war.


"I submit that "unarmed free citizen" is an oxymoron."

I'm unarmed and free. If you can't see around that, then that's on heck of a problem for your society in so many ways. Being unarmed is not a sign of weakness in adult males.


"Since the Constitution contains no provision for its own suspension, such a declaration would make the maker or makers thereof outlaws on the face of it, and oblige all citizens who have sworn to uphold the Constitution to take up arms forthwith. So it's necessary that they have sufficient arms to take up."

Once more, all the arguments you need against a written constitution are in this paragraph alone.