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Originally Posted by A-2-56
I think that you were very much correct until the end. The founders believed that the citizenry should be armed so as to be capable of setting the government right again when they have become corrupt or out of line with the Constitution.
They wanted the government to fear the prople not the other way around. The standing army that we have now serves against that purpose.
We keep it because we use it for global policing either good or bad can be argued.
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Some of the founders did. Not all. Eisenhower wanted us about the military industrial complex, we should have listened.