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Originally Posted by blueash
The second amendment was most certainly not written during "our war against the mother land" That war ended in 1781 with the surrender in Yorktown, although it took two more years for the treaty to be finalized, so 1783. The bill of rights was written in 1789 and ratified in 1791. It is best to have the facts correct before you offer an opinion based on errors in fact as it then appears your opinion is as invalid as your incorrect fact.
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The 2d Amendment was fresh in the minds of the framers of the Constitution. That was one of the first things that the Brits did was try and disarm the general population. So if you think that the war with the mother land had nothing to do with the 2d Amendment you had better re-read history.
An armed society is a free society, and unarmed society is subject to the wims of the government currently in power.