12-10-2017, 05:31 AM
1,000 firearm fatalities in Alaska during the six analyzed years, 750 were due to suicide and 152 were homicides... accidents, police intervention or could not be determined..."
So if almost no guns deaths were caused by citizens protecting themselves, what again is the reason to own a gun in Puna? Other than hunting boar?
Gun ownership to placate slave owners...? Wow, could there have been any other possible reason for people to have guns?
As with many historical circumstances, there was more than one reason for a citizen to own a musket in the 1770's. The reason it was inserted into the Constitution however, was for the benefit of slave owners. They needed assurance that the newly formed country would allow them to lawfully preserve what they called their well regulated militias, which consisted of county residents required to hunt down escaped slaves. With no compensation from the slave owners.
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
So if almost no guns deaths were caused by citizens protecting themselves, what again is the reason to own a gun in Puna? Other than hunting boar?
Gun ownership to placate slave owners...? Wow, could there have been any other possible reason for people to have guns?
As with many historical circumstances, there was more than one reason for a citizen to own a musket in the 1770's. The reason it was inserted into the Constitution however, was for the benefit of slave owners. They needed assurance that the newly formed country would allow them to lawfully preserve what they called their well regulated militias, which consisted of county residents required to hunt down escaped slaves. With no compensation from the slave owners.
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
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