Quote Originally Posted by pisshead
guns had just as much to do with it as taxes and land rights...that's why it was included in the constitution...it was imperative that a disarmed citizenry isn't protected against a tyrannical government.
I'm just interested in the truth, and there is no basis whatsoever to the claim that confiscation and/or control of the colonists' guns was a reason for the Revolution - because it didn't happen that way.

The Constitution's clause about the right to bear arms was written AFTER the fact, because the Founding Fathers wanted to ensure that liberty, and the right to overthrow a tyrannical government, would not be prevented by regulation against the right to bear arms. Yes, it's in the Constitution, but the right to bear arms had nothing to do with the causes of the Revolution. and I keep seeing this inaccuracy repeated here over and over. Let's first get the facts straight!