“A Well-Ordered Militia” 0
Nancy Liebrecht tackles the myth. A snippet:
The idea that anybody who had a gun was in the militia is a modern construct derived from aggressive promotion by gun advocates in the last thirty-five years and reinforced by series of recent court decisions.
As the debate about gun regulation continues, we should remember that the Second Amendment exists is because in 1787 the country needed an organized militia under government control to fight an insurrection. Personal protection or hunting had nothing to do with it. The Second Amendment was interpreted quite differently in 1791 than gun advocates interpret it today.
She left out the bit, which some dispute, about the slave-catchers.
