I wasn't trying to summarize the causes of the war. I was trying to illustrate one example of why our Founders ratified the Second Amendment. It was important for future generations to have the equipment readily at hand to oppose tyranny.
“I wasn’t trying to summarize the causes of the war. I was trying to illustrate one example of why our Founders ratified the Second Amendment. It was important for future generations to have the equipment readily at hand to oppose tyranny.” [William Tell, post 126]
It’s an inversion of logic (not to say the timeline) to post conditions, events, and ideas, imply “this caused that” - and then insist those conditions, events, and ideas weren’t the causes of the split, and the war.
If we don’t know the causes, clinging to post-AWI propaganda will not bring us a better understanding of how our cultural foundations and legal structures were imagined, derived, put into effect, and came to be administered. This in turn will hamper us as we frame the requisite arguments against modern attempts to impose gun control.
I concede that a large percentage of us Americans prefer the postwar propaganda (a narrative long learned by rote in grade schools) to accurate historical renditions & interpretations.