Honestly? To defend yourself primarily against your neighbors. Plenty of times the US hasn’t been dumb enough to go this quasi-official route; they just would rile up ordinary citizens and then sit back and just not interfere as those citizens went in and lynched and burned entire cities.
For more history on this, you can start with the Tulsa massacre and work up from there.
Honestly? To defend yourself primarily against your neighbors. Plenty of times the US hasn’t been dumb enough to go this quasi-official route; they just would rile up ordinary citizens and then sit back and just not interfere as those citizens went in and lynched and burned entire cities.
For more history on this, you can start with the Tulsa massacre and work up from there.
That is not what the constitution says…
And?
gestures broadly
Just Saying, the argument is shit for guns, and everyone with a sane brain can see it has been a huge problem for america.