According to one site I have read the intention of the second amendment was not to make gun ownership contingent upon a "well regulated militia." The militia clause was added simply to ensure that the U.S. government would have a militia. The second amendment guarantees gun ownership, period. On another note, following up from yesterday...
There certainly appears to be merit to the idea that the Founding Fathers were concerned that the people of the colonies were armed to protect themselves against tyranny. Here are the words of Alexander Hamilton from the Federalist Paper No.28:
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.
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I tink that what they did was a good idea
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