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    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State…

    Literally. It’s necessary to the security of our free state.

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      Except for the fact that those militias were protection FOR the government rather than FROM the government and acting as an alternative to the standing army that the founders were vehemently opposed to and today’s right wing politicians worship.

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          Yeah, some people tend to ignore sentences, historical context and reality itself in order to maintain that their near-religious obsession with guns is justified and about freedom and safety.

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            But at the time it literally was about freedom and safety. The colonists needed guns in every house to be ready to fight any empirical powers.

            Now days it makes no sense considering the military and political might of the USA, but you can’t disregard Jeffersons words as out of context wrt to guns. Yes in those times they absolutely wanted everyone (white) armed.

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              Again: even assuming that, there’s a world of difference between the collective ownership and use of a militia’s weapons and personal ownership for personal use.

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        This is a quote from Thomas Jefferson,

        “…The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants…

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          No mention of guns or arming everyone. He was likely thinking of something like the French Revolution, which did NOT involve arming everyone with a gun.