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Subdeacon Joe

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That pretty well demolish the argument that the 2nd only applies to a "well regulated militia" which the antis say is the Army National Guard.

[W]hereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it. (Richard Henry Lee, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.)

ubjecting the whole body of the people to be drawn out four or five times a year was a great and unnecessary tax on the community...As far as the whole body of the people are necessary to the general defence, they ought to be armed; but the law ought not to require more than is necessary; for that would be a just cause of complaint. (Representative Thomas Fitzsimons [Pennsylvania] ‘The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States’ [1790])

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