• Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

    We didn’t have, and the founding fathers didn’t want, a standing army. Too many French & English kings used them to suppress their people.