Just ran across this quote by John Adams. Still trying to understand it. Seems to me it makes the case for guns to be prohibited in regular daily society. If this is so, I wonder why I have never heard of it before ? Hoping some with brighter minds than me can enlighten me.
“To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. “ John Adams