Strongest Reason to Retain the Right to Keep Arms

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News has been circulating online for past several years that the 3^rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson supposedly wrote the statement about the right to keep arms. Point to be noted that one portion of the statement was originally linked to the U.S President, but we were unable to find a direct link of other phrase in the statement with the former U.S President. The statement was “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms” and it was presented in a draft for a proposed constitution of Virginia in 1776. The original phrase included in the constitution was “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements)”.

But, we were unable to find its final version in the constitution of Virginia, but it was found in the papers of Thomas Jefferson. “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”. This statement appeared as modern intensification, but it was not found in the back date prior to its publication in a newspaper’s column by Charlie Reese in pro-Second Amendment 1989. It is important it was not found in the paper records of Jefferson including his speeches and letters.