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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
...the framers were thinking to keep the people as equally armed as the standing military, as evidenced by several framers statements about the fear of standing armies.
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If I recall the Federalist Papers (I dont remember which one), the issue of the rights of the people were to protect the people from an oppressive government AND to protect one segment of the people from excesses of another (primarily to protect the rights of the minority from excesses of the majority)