Have you ever wondered how it is that dictators and tyrants do what they do and how it is that they do it when it comes to having absolute control over the people (Isaiah 14:915)? Just look to the children of Israel, who were disarmed of every means to defend themselves while under absolute control by their oppressors, namely the Philistines.
Let me say that again, they had to first disarm them of their means to defend themselves against their oppressors to have absolute control.
“So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that werewith Saul and Jonathan:” -1 Samuel 13:22
And so it is the reason why our forefathers established the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights because they understood this basic elementary principle.
George Mason, the Father of the Bill of Rights, warned:
“To disarm the people…was the best & most effectual way to enslave& ...