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Originally Posted by mneumann02
As a gun owner and a believer in the right to bear arms, I feel compelled to make my first comment on TOTV. To refer to anyone who thinks something must be done about gun control as the "Gun Ban Crowd" and labeled as people who want to trample on the second amendment is the typical "Big Lie" used by the NRA and brainwashed NRA supporters. They will believe anything and repeat it if it can further their cause against any gun control. Do you really think our forefathers would have written that amendment with the language they did if they knew what weaponry was now available and being used in criminal acts on a daily basis? Can't we draw the line somewhere?
I have much hope for the future, because as the older anti-gun control voters die off, they will be replaced as voters by this new youth movement to do something about our crazy lack of good gun control laws. Perhaps only then will the politicians who have been bought by the NRA be voted out of office.
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I think that we can all agree that our forefathers were at least reasonably intelligent, can we not? Assuming that we do agree there, then it would be reasonable to believe that at least some of them were aware of the progression of weapons use by their forefathers. I am not saying that they had a deep knowledge of what happened in prehistoric times, however it would be reasonable that they knew that swords, knives, etc. were used before the development of the first musket.
So, on this basis, I would agree with you that they would not necessarily know what the weapons of today would look like. However, given that they saw that there was an evolution in the weapons being used, it would be reasonable to assume that the weapons would continue to evolve, the time and method of evolution not known, but reasonably believed to continue onward.
Given the need for the development of the second amendment, and knowing that there would be changes to the weapons at some point in the future, perhaps that is why the forefathers used the terms, "the right to bear arms" versus "the right to bear muskets".