In Reverend Simeon Howard's June 1773 sermon, he spoke on the universal principle of self-preservation to which he stated it "allows of every thing necessary to self-defence, opposing force to force, and violence to violence."  He explained that Christianity was fully consistent with that fundamental law:

"Defending ourselves by force of arms against injurious attacks is a quite different thing from rendering evil for evil. The latter implies doing hurt to another, because he has done hurt to us; the former implies doing hurt to another, if he is hurt in the conflict, only because there is no other way of avoiding the mischief he endeavours to do us: the one proceeds from malice and revenge; the other merely from self-love, and a just concern for our own happiness, and argues no ill will against any man."

From The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, p. 27.
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"Nothing clears a troubled mind like shooting a bow." - Fred Bear
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Louis Charmeau, a member of the French Resistance during WWII, shared with me his recollections on German disarming policies.  "From July 1942 through the date of my arrest on May 22, 1944, I was able to save two Jewish families and twenty-five persons denounced for possession of arms or other offenses that would have led them straight to deportation or execution."  When asked where did arms used in the Resistance come from, Charmeau replied, "Maybe 15 percent came from civilians who had left for the Maquis [rural resistance fighters] with their old arms, often without ammunition.  Eighty-five percent came from airdrops. Yes, some were taken from German soldiers, but only after 1944, when they were prisoners."  Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, p. 155.

Photo: (Original Caption) 9/10/1944-Marseille, France- Five women, members of the Maquis, raise the rifles and display the pistols they used to fight the Nazi garrison in Marseille before the entry of Allied troops. The city now liberated, the women parade with other residents, in the background, to celebrate victory and freedom.
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In defending a fellow republican at a murder trial in 53 B.C., Cicero "returned to a philosophical vidication of the right of self-defense and, by implication, the right to keep and bear arms. 'Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson is inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself.  They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons and lives from violence of any and every kind by all the means within their power.' " 

From That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right, p. 17.  For further analysis of Cicero's orations and philosophical writings, see chapter 1 this book.
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For those days when you can't decide if you want a wheellock firearm or battle axe!  

From the NRA's National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.
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At the Virginia ratification convention, George Mason recalled that “when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised . . . to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them . . . .” 10 Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution 1271 (1993).
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"It is a maxim, that a government ought to be cautious not to govern over-much, for when the cord of power is drawn too tight, it generally proves its destruction . . . .” - "Deliberator"  From the March 26, 1788 Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, quoted in Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, John P. Kaminski et al. eds. (Madison, Wisc.: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019), vol. 34, 1101.
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"The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.  Freedom of the press, too." - Representative Fisher Ames of Massachusetts (letter to F. R. Minoe, June 12, 1789).  Quoted in The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, p. 257.

"Portrait of Fisher Ames (1758-1808)" by Alonzo Chappell
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