I think it was a lot more reasonable back then, when the government was small and did not own a standing army and multiple armed police agencies.
That said, I think there's fantasists on both sides of the issue. I've seen some ostensibly pro-2nd-amendment arguments that so obviously don't hold water they give everyone else involved in the debate a bad name.
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That said, I think there's fantasists on both sides of the issue. I've seen some ostensibly pro-2nd-amendment arguments that so obviously don't hold water they give everyone else involved in the debate a bad name.