True then and is still true today.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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Interestingly enough, the Founding Fathers wished all citizens to be
armed.
Herse, the Second Amendment.


That was not because the Founding Fathers were looking to build a "polite"
society, but rather the Founding Fathers felt that an armed citizenry made
it
difficult for a dictatorship to evolve.