Hundreds, if not thousands of historians, social scientists, psychologists and professional know-it-all have attempted to explain and rationalize the assimilation of the gun culture into mainstream America for as long as anyone can remember.
Nevertheless, the simple fact is this: while it is true that we are the only developed nation in the world without a strict regulation of a civilians’ right to possess firearms, we are also the only country in the world that has required, no, demanded, its citizenry to raise their weapons in defense of their lives and property.
History is replete, from the frontier days right down to the late 19th century (and in some instances, even in the beginning of the 20th), of ordinary citizens being deputized or simply summoned to assist in tackling cattle rustlers, bandits and outlaws, indigenous Native Americans, border disputes on the Southern and Western fronts, political disputes, and much more.
This unique exigency placed on the populace, brought upon by the constant pressures of maintaining and expanding a very young America, has inadvertently cast a murky veil on the Second Amendment.
“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”
While taken on its own, the Second Amendment only appears to confer the right to bear arms to an organized militia, the cultural and historical precedents force us to redefine the very concept of militia.
The colonists, the Western settlers, the Native Americans, the cowboys, the Civil War conscripts were all, at one time or another, de-facto militias; gun control advocates, however, contends that the country and society have evolved so far away from our dangerous frontier past to render the whole argument extraneous.
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