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05-05-2023, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
The rigours of frontier life would have required pretty much anyone there to be well armed which I assume the Founding Fathers would have known.
They were addressing militia pretty much in the 2nd Amendment and not people carrying arms as that would have been a given in many situations.
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The Founding Fathers had a revolution to win and a government to establish. The exploits of Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, and other frontiersmen came later. The Founding Fathers and other colonists needed to be armed as individuals for their own protection as they and their families at times unfortunately had needed to engage in armed conflict not only with indigenous people but their own criminal element. The Founding Fathers therefore recognized individual citizens of the new country they were establishing needed the right to bear arms, thus the second amendment in 1791. Founding Fathers of the United States - Wikipedia
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