Damn son, you just can't see the forest for the trees can you? Henry was in the crosshairs of making hard decisions about limiting the militias power. And what was his concern? Slaves of course. So, the second was ratified based on that concern. Limiting their power against slaves would have been too risky for the militia.Your source is a screed about one argument to rally support for the Constituion against one silly bit of counter argument.
The reality is that the Framers disliked British practices including such inter-connected things as the quartering of troops and standing armies. They had a mistrust of too much centralized governmental power. The provisions made to insure that the national government couldn’t make laws to usurp the authority of the st
Your “sourcel conflates one argument made by a proponent of the ratification in response to an argument opposed to ratification with the actual reason for the Second amendment.
In reality, if you were studious and honest enough to look at more than just one or two “sources” that make such errors, would inform you that the actual reason of the Framers for the Second amendment had more to do with a mistrust of ventral government authority. It emanated from a knowledge of history — including (but not limited to) what the British had done to the colonies. The conceptual basis for the 2d Amendment included overlapping concerns involving (among other things) opposition to standing armies and such things as the quartering of troops in civilian homes.
Now, again, since you are determined to derail this thread, I think it’s appropriate to just ignore your off topic posting habits. Start this conversation in another stand alone thread, and you might earn some responses.
All this talk about mistrust of the centralized government was a bunch of bs. It was a front to the real concern, which were the slaves.