"What’s unquestionable is the fact that gun ownership was nearly universal on the frontier and seen as a vital element for both individual, and importantly, community protection. It wasn’t enough to merely rely on the authorities.
The Founders created the Second Amendment with the intent of protecting the individual right to self-defense, but also for the purpose of protecting the responsibility of citizens to protect their neighbors, communities, and country.
As Jay Cost wrote for National Review, the Second Amendment was not simply “a selfish right to bear weapons for oneself, but a public-spirited right to ensure that citizens could defend the polity without recourse to omnipotent, unaccountable armed forces.”
This community responsibility to bear arms played an essential role in the Old West, but it is still in large part understood by the most law-abiding gun owners today."
http://dailysignal.com/2018/03/08/gun-ownership-not-gun-control-succeeded-wild-west/
The Founders created the Second Amendment with the intent of protecting the individual right to self-defense, but also for the purpose of protecting the responsibility of citizens to protect their neighbors, communities, and country.
As Jay Cost wrote for National Review, the Second Amendment was not simply “a selfish right to bear weapons for oneself, but a public-spirited right to ensure that citizens could defend the polity without recourse to omnipotent, unaccountable armed forces.”
This community responsibility to bear arms played an essential role in the Old West, but it is still in large part understood by the most law-abiding gun owners today."
http://dailysignal.com/2018/03/08/gun-ownership-not-gun-control-succeeded-wild-west/