“The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun.”
Says you, *sshole.
But, of course, you’re a snotty, little Liberal, so you know better than the USSC.
Federalist/Anti-Federalist ping.
Unfortunately this author never bothered to actually see what the founders actually said and wrote about it.
“A free people ought to be armed.”
- George Washington
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Is this a real quote?:
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
- Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria)
“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.”
- John Adams
“To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them.”
- George Mason
“I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians.”
- George Mason (father of the Bill of Rights and The Virginia Declaration of Rights)
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.”
- Noah Webster