As I said, you don’t like the 2nd amendment.
Lexington and Concord were about large bore crew served military weapons. Not sporting arms.
Don’t tell me you respect the 2nd amendment when you reject the very premise on which is was founded.
Keep arms. That means I can buy arms, and keep arms. Bear arms. That means I can have them on my person.
Let me ask you again. Should I be required to have a permit or a license of some kind to drive to the grocery store with a revolver in my belt?
Should the government be “allowed” to tell me that I cannot have a fully auto m-4 carbine in the tool box of my pickup truck? When you read the enumerated powers of the constitution where do you see the power to tell me what kind of weapon I can have or can’t have?
The feds use the commerce clause. But they use commerce clause for everything imaginable.
“Should I be required to have a permit or a license of some kind to drive to the grocery store with a revolver in my belt?”
Should convicted felons be allowed to own firearms?
“Should the government be “allowed” to tell me that I cannot have a fully auto m-4 carbine in the tool box of my pickup truck?”
No, they shouldn’t have that power.
“Lexington and Concord were about large bore crew served military weapons. Not sporting arms.”
Right you are.
If I recall history correctly, Col. Moultrie and his 1st and 2nd South Carolina battalions, who defended Charleston from the British fleet on Sullivan’s Island in June, 1776, hauled his personal 9 and 12 pound cannons from his barn and used them to blast the enemy frigates from the fort’s palmetto ramparts. More than 250 British were killed, while Moultrie’s battalions suffered minimum casualties.
Sometimes, large weapons are needed.