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Posted by bingbong on Thu Dec 20 15:59:46 2012, in response to Re: You Can't Prevent The Next Sandy Hook Incident, posted by SMAZ on Thu Dec 20 15:29:10 2012. Meanwhile, the point of the 2nd amendment was to provide recruits for a militia (whose primary purpose was the capture of escaped slaves) and/or draft a military without the expense of maintaining one (which the new country could both ill-afford nor had the taste for after English army occupation, at the expense of draftees It was not to ensure private citizens could assemble personal armories. There's plenty of documentation to that. It was about getting slave holding states to sign on. |
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