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Cerval Donating Member (65 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 03:09 PM
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357. Of course.
The Federalist Papers are fairly clear about the intent of the 2nd Amendment. Of course, I don't believe Hamilton ever conceived of a time when people would have enough money to own guns just to own guns. He was thinking that most people would know how to use a gun because they had to hunt to subsist and that the citizens would band together and form militias that were like the Minutemen. Obviously, since we have a well-armed police force and a standing army, there is very little reason for citizens to form militias. We have given the power to defend the country into the hands of the military, not to me or my next door neighbor like it was at the end of the Revolutionary War. Federalist 29 in particular speaks to the regulation of a Militia by the State (which is also stated in the 2nd amendment by the language "...a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State..."). The only problem is that "well-regulated Militia" is not defined.

I do believe that most people who scream about the 2nd Amendment are trying to skirt the intent of the Constitution; however, this is, again, an opinion. I do not necessarily know what the intent of the founding fathers was.

Things have changed so much since the late 1700's and early 1800's.
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