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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/f7872173-e8f9-4118-80d9-97391b5d53d5n%40googlegroups.com.
