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Second Amendment

I know not all of you guys dig Cecil Adams, but he has an interesting
lesson on the Second Amendment. Here's a quote:

However odd it strikes us today, the framers regarded private gun ownership as one of the pillars of their liberty.
They had recently defeated one of the most powerful nations in the world using an army that in the early going had
consisted of amateur soldiers using their own weapons. They considered these citizen militias vastly preferable to
standing armies, which in their experience had been instruments of oppression. They also had no professional police
force upon which to depend for defense of their lives and property. It seemed natural to them that ordinary folk
should have the right to own guns.

Thanks to Fark for that one.