Liberal Forum

I was doing a little research on the Second Amendment and came across this:Further research showed me thatafter the Revolutionary War, the Continental Army was disbanded and state militias became the new nation's sole ground army.Our firsttrained standing army, the Legion of the United States, wasn't established until 1792, a year after the Bill of Rights was adopted.So, since we had no standing army when the Second Amendment was adopted, they had to depend on state militias, hence the phrase 'a well regulated militia'.I hear a lot of people say that the Second Amendment gives us the right to bear arms in case we have to rebel against a tyrannical government, yet it seems that the Founders framed the Constitution in part as a response to the danger posed by a rebellion against the government (Shay's Rebellion).Ironic.you realize that a "state militia" in those days was simply a bunch of private armed citizens.....right?