2nd Amendment - The Founding Father's Views - EP 1

We hear a lot of people try to claim an interpretation of the 2nd Amendment of our Bill of Rights that excludes military arms and only protects weapon ownership for self-defense and hunting. As I grew curious about this topic, I realized that we are discussing a period that we have libraries full of original documents from. So, shouldn't there be some records, opinions, or indicators from the founding fathers and their historical peers? Turns out, there is, so in this series, I share videos I've been making to compile their opinions in a modern way.

Lets investigate the Founding Father's Views on 2nd Amendment

From "An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution" October 10th 1787.

Noah Webster (the guy from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary) While not considered by many to be a Founding Father, I think he is up there in importance with them. He educated generations of Americans with his blue-backed speller and was eventually considered the "Father of American Scholarship and Education."

He was young during the Revolution (he graduated from Yale in 1778), but was a political activist and thinker his whole life and served as a Connecticut State Representative.

He was instrumental in the founding the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery.

Last but certainly not least, he was a fervent Christian and saw the Bible as the foundation for American society and education (Calvinistic Orthodoxy was his particular flavor).