My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.“ Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
Distasteful though it may be to contemplate, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is about nothing less than the right of We The People to keep and bear weapons of war suitable for use in battle. The Bill of Rights was written by men who had just fought and won a bloody war against their own tyrannical government. The Founders saw fit to enshrine the right of future generations to do likewise by ensuring the American people would never be deprived of arms by their own government. Not to put to fine a point on it, but the Second Amendment is not about killing deer, it is about killing people.
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