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LUVMBDiesels · #98 06-11-2009, 11:03 PM

Off topic, but you are right. I have been to The sites of the Battle of Stony Point, Monmouth, Valley Forge, etc and the conditions our soldiers had to put up with would have made the Viet Cong go home in disgust... The British troops and their mercenaries were the best equipped, highly trained, well motivated soldiers around. The Continentals did not stand a chance except for three things, The Atlantic ocean was a much bigger barrier back then, The Americans WERE proficient with their firearms and with stalking animals and hiding by using the land as opposed to marching in blocks, and the help the Continentals got from France and other nations in the way of money, arms, and training. The French fleet showing up did not hurt either.

If you go back to the days of the Revolution and before, you can see that the right to bear arms was very restricted in Europe. Only the gentry could bear arms. This prevented most nations from rising up to remove oppressive governments. Only in Britain did a revolution happen and that was one of the government overthrowing the royalty.
The 2nd amendment was put in IN MY OPINION (don't tase me) to prevent a ruling class from being able to sequester weapons to remove the method of final recourse from an oppressed people.