Oh, I definitely believe that there should be rational and reasonable controls on guns, but definitely not in a commonly understood sense of control. However, the first and foremost control should be on the largest purveyor of dangerous weapons and that is the U.S. government. I find it particularly offensive and extremely hypocritical that there are those in the Gun-Control groups who are all too willing to remove guns from our society while seeing nothing wrong with our own government supplying guns and weapons to every single side in just about every single conflict around the world. Our government is the largest dangerous weapons dealer and supplier in the world.
The Militia Act of 1792 concerned the authority of the President to call out the Militia of each State “whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe…”
Now, within the Militia Act of 1792 you will notice one very important sentence: “provide himself with a good musket or firelock” the requirement of registering with the Militia was not a prerequisite for gun ownership however, gun ownership was definitely a prerequisite for registering with the Militia. The purpose for the Militia Act of 1792 was to ensure that the Militia was manned adequately in case of war and had absolutely nothing to do with guns or gun ownership or the registration of those guns, but it made it clear that to be registered in the Militia, a man must own a gun.
