Who's right about the second amendment: Piers Morgan or the gun rights advocate?

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30. Here we're discussing our forefather's beliefs and intentions

when they were all sitting down together attempting to pen our constitution and bill of rights. It is wholly appropriate to use their quotes from this same period of time to better understand what they were thinking-what their intentions were. There's nothing lame about this no matter how much you claim it to be so. What is lame, however, is to try to ignore their words in order to find the intent you want instead of the intent they actually had which is what you are doing. It's beyond lame, it's irresponsible and juvenile. It's sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "lalalalala I can't hear you". Furthermore, it's a shameful assault against this country's forefathers.

Tench Coxe was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress. He participated in writing our constitution and our bill of rights. He penned the aforementioned quote in a letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette on Feb. 20, 1788-four months after he helped pen the final draft of the US constitution, the constitution that serves as the bed rock of this republic-the bedrock you attempt to erode by substituting his beliefs and intentions with yours.

He penned the following quote in 1789:
Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution," under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789.


The beliefs and intentions of Tench Coxe are undeniable. His intent is well known. You can not escape it.