What did the Founders mean...

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84. Many folks are "in love" with the idea that...

...a new law, stricter law, better law... is the answer to mostly all problems facing society. The problem there comes from the fact that some of those folks are law makers and law makers have a bit more to say about making laws than most of us. Unfortunately, the old saying, 'when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail' plays a big role in legislation.

I would hazard a guess that many laws, which were written and passed with the best intentions, have taken unintended turns and have actually caused problems for the people.

Many folks want to end around any state government and have the feds make it law from sea to shining sea.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. - Daniel Webster

Sound like any orange person you may have heard of?

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." - (Story, Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. 3 vols. Boston, 1833.) (Joseph Story (September 18, 1779 – September 10, 1845) was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845.)

What would that fellow, Story, know about the law? Why should his opinion on the Constitution be worth anything more than that of a bloke in the pub on the next stool? Is there any reason to trust the opinion of someone who was alive when the BoR was written and passed?