Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People have a right to be able to bear arms.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.