The founding fathers wanted all rebel colonists to be heavily armed, so as to be able to carry out permanent rebellion against the British, or defense and offense against anyone else, especially the French or the Spanish, and Indians, if need be.
Oh yes, of course, one of the biggest, perhaps the biggest reason the colonists needed to all be armed was to keep under control their large negro slave populations. These were universally considered a serious threat, both North and South.
No one ever would have dreamed of extending the right to bear arms to negroes, slave or free, in 1776, or later, in fact until Lincoln not only freed the negroes, but armed 100,000 of them to fight the South. Those were two of his many unprecedented and unconstitutional acts.
After the war he was apparently terrified about what these people might do. Don't you think he should have thought of that before?
Oh yes, of course, one of the biggest, perhaps the biggest reason the colonists needed to all be armed was to keep under control their large negro slave populations. These were universally considered a serious threat, both North and South.
No one ever would have dreamed of extending the right to bear arms to negroes, slave or free, in 1776, or later, in fact until Lincoln not only freed the negroes, but armed 100,000 of them to fight the South. Those were two of his many unprecedented and unconstitutional acts.
After the war he was apparently terrified about what these people might do. Don't you think he should have thought of that before?
Just try changing that part of the constitution.
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