Professor Condoleeza Rice on the 2A

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Originally Posted by JohnR

When the 2A was written, the West had fairly recently emerged from the nasty, brutish middle ages into The Enlightenment. They knew a thing or two about violent thuggery. We’re probably more peaceful today overall than we were back then.

Perhaps. but I think our Founding Fathers knew that Tyranny could rear its ugly head in the future, and that "We the People" had to have a defense against it.