If the colonists were not as heavily armed as the government, Benjamin Franklin would have been killed at a very young age. There are numerous famous Ben Franklin quotes that mention the threat of capture and execution he faced, even before the revolution began. At the time, he lived a life like Osama Bin Laden. Anyone who says otherwise needs a lesson in US history. He spent most of his life in hiding and was under a death warrant for publishing memes that made fun of the Crown. The same way terrorists issue kill orders for people that make joke cartoons about Islam. The Second Amendment was created to make sure someone like Ben Franklin could survive a revolutionary war. That means private citizens were supposed to always be as heavily armed as the government.
