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FBaggins

(27,714 posts)
5. That's nonsense
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 10:54 PM
Jun 2021

Last edited Sun Jun 20, 2021, 06:02 AM - Edit history (1)

She tries to spin it as though the southern states were trying to keep their guns (leaving the reader with the impression that it was some sort of compromise with the northern states)

That’s entirely untrue. Most of the northern states already included something similar to 2A in their state constitutions (often explicitly including self defense and not limiting the right to any “militia”).

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