Some quotes I found very interesting and comforting. NO ONE could argue the
2nd after reading what the FF themselves have said…not even KK/OS.
Not all are FF’s but still wise words.

List is kinda long…sorry:

Samuel Adams: “The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the
people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their
own arms.”
– During Massachusetts’ U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, (1788.)
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Edmund Burke: “The people never give up their liberties but under some
delusion.”
– 1784 speech.
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Noah Webster: “The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by
the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a
force superior to any band of regular troops…”
– An examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution by
the Late Convention (1787.)
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Ok so he wasnt a FF but he was dead right!

William Pitt: “If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign
troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms — never,
never, never! You cannot conquer America.”
– 1777 speech.
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Benjamin Franklin: “They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Historical Review of Pennsylvania, (1759.)
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Thomas Jefferson: “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
– Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776,) Jefferson Papers 344, (J. Boyd,
ed. 1950.)
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John Adams: “Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at
individual discretion… in private self defence.”
– A Defense of the U.S. Constitutions of Government of the United States of
America (1787-88.)
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James Madison: The Constitution preserves “the advantage of being armed
which Americans possess over the people of almost every other
nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
– The Federalist #46.
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Thomas Paine: “…arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe,
and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would
ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.”
– Thoughts on Defensive War, (1775.)
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Thomas Jefferson: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those
who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make
things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve
rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be
attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
– Quoting 18th Century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and
Punishment (1764.)
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Speaking out on the 2nd itself:

“A well Regulated Militia,
being necessary to the security
of a free state, the right of the
people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed.”

Richard Henry Lee: “A militia when properly formed is in fact the people
themselves…and include all men capable of bearing arms…To preserve
liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess
arms…”
– Additional Letters From the Federal Farmer 53 (1788.)

George Mason: “I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people…to
disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
– During Virginia’s ratification convention, (1788.)
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Wise Men in Government….what a time to have been alive.