5 Gun Control Arguments We Are Tired Of Hearing

2. The Second Amendment was for militias, not individuals

Gun control advocates also argue the Second Amendment is about arming militias, not individuals. Quotes taken directly from the founders, however, are at odds with such claims.

“I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers,” George Mason wrote to the Virginia Ratifying Convention in June of 1788.

While Thomas Jefferson wrote in his first draft of the Virginia Constitution, “No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms,” Samuel Adams said in 1788 at the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention.