Some Jefferson quotes:
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is freedon.”
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government. So let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first.”
“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to preserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.”
“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
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What a definitive statement of the core meaning of the Second Amendment! The individual right to self-defense is, of course, important, and implied in the overall concept of the Second Amendment, but Jefferson's quote exposes the utter absurdity of those who would try justify the banning of military-appropriate (i.e. militia-appropriate) weapons.
In the context of the Founders' knowledge and the debates which enveloped their time, "gun-controllers" who willingly embrace such patently Tyrannical concepts, such as the banning of "assault weapons, MUST be called out, identified, and branded as the Tyrants that they are.