emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
Some states that approved the adding of the Second Amendment did not even have any "state militias" at the time, so they couldn't be referring to that or the states would not be equally protected. It had to mean the people being the source of any armed militia to check govt. Then you can have all three recognized: the people, the state govt and the national govt. The whole point of adding the Bill of Rights was to delineate the "rights of individuals" that protestors objected to the Constitution as not adequately protecting. Am I studying the same history as other people? Where are we not getting that the only reason the Constitution got ratified is the concession and agreement to add the Bill of Rights to define individual liberties and protections from federal govt abuses that the opposing groups feared most in forming a Central govt. The founders and we the people today all know where that would lead, why is this news?Warren Burger is the world's biggest con artists. There is no evidence that the founder's added the Second Amendment to maintain state armies. Why would they need the 2nd amendment for that? Every country n the world already had a government military,