Second Amendment: The Origins of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Why did the framers of the U.S. constitution demand the right of the people to keep and bear arms?

Amendment II
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.

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