21 Feb 2023 1:26 pm
jack » 21 Feb 2023, 2:22 pm » wrote: ↑ Your link is a bit unhelpful to your argument. This is the expert conclusion:
"While there is a common law right to self-defense, most historians think that it would be remarkable news to the framers of the Second Amendment that they were actually constitutionalizing a personal right to self-defense as opposed to trying to say something significant about the militia," he says
The people are the militia. Self-defense and checks on gov is exactly what they were talking about.