Reply #357: All true information but... [View All]

[gorfle]

Everything you posted is true, jmg257, but that is not the point I am trying to bring home to FTGFN.

He is trying to tie the right to bear arms to militias.

Before we can discuss the relationship between the right to bear arms and militias, we have to understand what role the militias were intended to fulfill.

You are right - it isn't very complicated, but FTGFN won't admit what that role was intended to be, despite my providing numerous historical citations that describe exactly what the founding fathers intended that role to be. All the constitution has to say is, "to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions", and this is so.

But the real question here is why did the founding fathers work so hard to frame it so that the militias were under the control of the States, and not the Federal government?.

This is the question I am trying to get FTGFN to answer.