On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 12:53:21 PM UTC-5 Brent wrote:
> > On 5/30/2021 7:15 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > This is manifested in denial arguments seen around the world. The second > Amendment was drafted in order to allow militias to put down slave > rebellions. > > > I think that's nonsense. The U.S. had just been formed by taking up arms, > without an army, to revolt against the British Empire. They didn't want > the expense and difficulty of maintaining a standing army. So it is > perfectly rational, slaves or not, that they would have written the 2nd > Amendment as a personal freedom and as an alternative to a national army. > Without it there would still have been no obstacle to putting down slave > rebellions. It did nothing to enhance states and local governments power > to do so. And note that the two times that national militias were actually > formed to put down rebellions, The Whisky Rebellion and Shays Rebellion, > they had nothing to do with slavery. > > Brent > Letters by Patrick Henry and Hamilton suggest otherwise. Besides the militia was only a nuisance to the British and the start of the revolution. It was the Continental Army Washington formed, a professional army, that won the war. The Shays Rebellion was put down by Washington by the army he formed. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/f7872173-e8f9-4118-80d9-97391b5d53d5n%40googlegroups.com.
