The problem is that 99% of Americans cannot tell you what came before the 2nd amendment and explain natural and inalienable rights, etc. They think this was new with the 2nd amendment. No one is taught civics and history.
some of what came before
“1645 -Youth from ten to sixteen years are to be
exercised with small guns, half-pikes, bows and arrows.”
1648 -”In every company some under-officer shall be
appointed by the captain “to exercise such children...”
‘History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton’ By Joseph Barlow Felt, p141
[My GGGG Grandfather lived in Ipswich.]
EVEN THE BRITISH IN 1794 ATTEST TO THE EXERCISE AND PRACTICE OF THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS BY AMERICAN KIDS PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1775 “Events which served to shew [sic] that if the Americans were yet unacquainted with military discipline they were not destitute of either courage or conduct but knew well and dared to avail themselves of such advantages as they possessed. The people of the colonies are accustomed to the use of fire arms from their earliest youth and are in general good marksmen. Such men placed in a house behind a wall or amongst trees are capable of doing as much execution as regular soldiers. And to these advantages which they possessed during the greatest part of the nineteenth of April we may attribute the inconsiderable loss sustained by them compared with that of our detachments.” Stedman,p.120, [The History of the Origin, Progress,
and Termination of the .American War,” Stedman, C. 1794, Volume 1]
1777 KIDS FIGHT WITH MUSKETS AND BAYONETS
AT BATTLE OF SARATOGA
Thirteen year old boys with muskets fought at Saratoga- Dwight, “The Northern Traveler”, p141
“Who saved Baltimore? ... Who obtained the victory at New Orleans?
These militia, trained and disciplined in their own houses; not practiced in the field, but BRINGING THEIR GUNS WHICH THEY WERE TAUGHT TO USE WHEN CHILDREN..” p.111, p.168 are sourced from “Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”,
Vol. 4, by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-8