Seems as though our Founders were some pretty smart fellas.
Too bad the 20th century heirs to their wisdom, rather than respecting same, instead just crapped all over it.
“....Seems as though our Founders were some pretty smart fellas....”
The evil in man has not changed throughout human history.
They knew what they were dealing with and tried to build a country to give life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to all.
Today’s so-called “man” is in for a very rude awakening....the evil is still the same.
Too many people forget (or never knew) that the American Revolution (the actual shooting war) started not with taxes, but when the British sent troops from Boston to seize the colonists’ arsenal at Concord. The SHTF because the colonists realized that without those weapons, they were defenseless subjects of tyranny. After the war, gun ownership was viewed as necessary to protect against domestic tyranny (see Civil War).