A few
interesting facts, for 2nd Amendment people.
If all of the
murdering people in this countries ‘Mass Murdering to date’ were legally and
properly armed, each should have only been able to buy Muskets!
And then,
only for a year at most!
One shot
about every five minutes
and
would have been tackled
long before
the gun is
reloaded!
If not for
the influx of money
by
millionaires
and
billionaires
this should be true today!
The NRA,
their Lobbyists/Politicians and other misguided people, changes the type of
weapon!
The
American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was
a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its Thirteen
Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America. Wikipedia
American colonists
were barely 12 years removed from the French and Indian wars (1754-1763), but
close enough to a new conflict to begin thinking about the necessity for
building a store of weapons. Those who served in militias in that earlier war
had furnished their own weapons. The guns would have been muskets, fowling
pieces or no weapon at all. They brought and carried their own provisions.
Although the musket would be carried over to the new war, some weapons had seen
its zenith in the old conflict. The matchlock musket was obsolete by 1775, but
still retained by some families as a useful, but cumbersome to fire, weapon.
April 19, 1775 –
September 3, 1783
Second Amendment to
the United States Constitution
“The revolutionaries
also created a full-time regular army—the Continental Army—but because of manpower shortages the
militia provided short-term support to the regulars in the field throughout the
war.
In colonial era Anglo-American usage, militia service was
distinguished from military service in that the latter was normally a
commitment for a fixed period of time of at least a year, for a salary, whereas militia was only to meet a
threat, or prepare to meet a threat, for periods of time expected to be short.
Militia persons were normally expected to provide their own weapons, equipment,
or supplies, although they may later be compensated for losses or expenditures.[71]
A related concept is the jury,
which can be regarded as a specialized form of militia convened to render a
verdict in a court proceeding (known as a petit jury or trial
jury) or to investigate
a public matter and render a presentment or indictment (grand
jury).[72]
With the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, control of the army and the power to
direct the militia of the states was concurrently delegated to the federal Congress.[73]
The Militia Clauses gave Congress authority for "organizing, arming, and
disciplining" the militia, and "governing such Part of them as may be
employed in the Service of the United States", with the States retaining
authority to appoint officers and to impose the training specified by Congress.
Proponents describe a key element in the concept of "militia" was
that to be "genuine" it not be a "select militia", composed
of an unrepresentative subset of the population. This was an argument presented
in the ratification debates.[74]
That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the
respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen
years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after
excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia, ...
every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter,
provide himself with a good musket or firelock. “
