Reply #97: let's play a game... [View All]

[hansberrym]

I'll post a quote from a dead white guy illustrating that individual's were intended to armed for thier own defense AND for the collective defense. Then you can post a quote showing that the right was meant to be exclusively a collective right with no individual right intended.

I'll start with one of Benchley's favaorites


Defense of the Constitution, John Adams 1787
”To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws"
(end quote)


except prep. with exclusion of , leaving out
partial adj. favoring one party over another,


How does Adams' exception for "Private self defense" fit the anti's argument?