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    The Second Amendment and the Inalienable Right to Self-Defense
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    1. mcjsa 17 Sep 2023
      The animating concern behind the amendment was fear that the new federal government might try to disarm the citizenry in order to prevent armed resistance to political usurpations.

      This contention is supported only with polemics. If the argument were so strong, then ample evidence of this fear and distrust could be found, and its difficult to accept that the Constitution was ever ratified were this really the case.

      usurpation rebellion
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