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They would have lost but not for getting the French, Dutch and Spanish to help with their ships. These ships cost a lot of money to build and maintain.

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Naval battles of the American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

What movie would that be?

Every single right enumerated in the Bill of Rights is there to protect the citizens of America from government overreach. It would be illogical to think that just one (the 2nd. Amendment) was NOT there for that purpose.

THE CONCORD HYMN (1st. Stanza) by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
 Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
 And fired the shot heard round the world."


April 19, 1775, and the majority of the American colonists had had enough. They were suffering under the oppression of a powerful government, a government that deigned to act "in the best interests" of the colonists without any input FROM the colonists. So these embattled farmers took on the soldiers of (at the time) the mightiest nation on the planet. They knew full well that what they were doing, in the view of the British crown, was treason. They knew that the penalty for treason was death. Their chances for success were probably slim and none.

But they took the stand. And in the end, a government was implemented that SERVED the people, not the other way around.

It would not have happened that way, had the colonists NOT been armed.

Every one of the founders had lived through that time, when the only way to throw off government oppression was through armed resistance. And I have absolutely no doubt that the 2nd Amendment, just like every right enumerated in the Bill of Rights, was put there to protect the people from government overreach: in the case of the 2nd Amendment, for the express purpose of making sure the people, through force of arms if necessary, had the ability to resist oppression.