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I guess the question is more in the line of "wasn't the 2nd amendment exactly for this precise situation?"
No, they would have said that if they meant that. I cannot overemphasize just how many Americans truly, actually believe that there are just bands of colored men with rifles walking around in the city streets.
My bad. Sometimes I forget that there is no physical limit of stupidity.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." – Albert Einstein
It reads:
Beau of the Fifth column said it best, the purpose was to put down civil insurrections (now there's cops for that, supposedly), and to fight government employees: the foreign kind, in the send of an invasion where the people would support the military; and the domestic kind, if the government went tyrannical.