Once again, did not say such. The letters of marque were their work around to existing situations. The FF's realized that they did not have the weaponry/ships/etc. to shrug off Britain's yoke, so they hired out. Quite common, even today.
Vessels at sea are the odd man out as there were a great majority of privateers. The Continental Congress could not commandeer them, so the basically said, "anything with a Union Jack is fair game, you keep the gold, we get the weapons." But just because they made allowances for such, did not mean that they wanted private ownership of major end items such as frigates and ships of war.
Government disarmament is the problem and not the solution.
Agreed, but I would go even further and say that government is the problem, not just government disarming of the populace.
ok... here is my question...
if a government goes rogue and the people rise up, would the president order the armed forces to use ordnance on the population???
if so, then we have not only the right but the duty to possess ordnance...
does this clear up the issue?