1.0 link 109530 <![CDATA[The Second Amendment: An Irrelevant Relic]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-lauria/the-second-amendment-an-i_b_109530.html The Second Amendment was written after a war in which a new nation without a standing army defeated the biggest standing army on the planet. To defend itself, the new country relied on citizens arming themselves in civilian militias.

Ever since Britain had permanently garrisoned troops in Massachusetts to put down the brewing rebellion in 1768, opposition to standing armies ran deep among Americans. The Revolution was nearly lost because the Continental Congress for years refused Washington's pleading for a...

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