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Roscoe, in the "actual quote", taken in context, Adams is defending the concept of what was to become the constitutions 2nd amendment, and elaborating on the role of a 'well regulated' milita...

[Roscoe]

Roscoe, in the "actual quote", taken in context, Adams is defending the concept of what was to become the constitutions 2nd amendment, and elaborating on the role of a 'well regulated' milita...

More than that. The actual quote:

"To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
---John Adams