I often notice how in argument and debate over various subjects people often like to state how the founding fathers meant or did mean to have our country in this way, that way, and another.

"Our country was/wasn't borne on Christian values"
"They meant to allow eahc citizen to carry a firearm"
"Our country was/wasnt founded on such and such morals"
"They did and didn't want this and that"

What bothers me about this is that these people lived more than two centuries ago. They lived in a totally differnet time with different societies, peoples, morals, and values. People behaved and thought differently Some thing sthat are now acceptable werent then, and the oppoiste is sometime strue. it was a totally differnet world.

So how can you simply say that what wer are doing now is or isn't right because the founding fathers wanted it to be in a certain ay.

Washington was against alliances with foreighn nations but he could not have anticipated the global world that the earth turned into.

Guns were allowed for everyone for two reasons (at least as I was taught). To allow for a citizen militia to go a against the government if it should become tyrannical, and to defend aginst indians.

In my opinion, you cant simply say that such and such is wrong because Washngton, Jefferson and Franklin wanted the USA to act in A, B C. Their government was product of their own times built from their morals and values and views of the world, subjects have greatly changed and cannot be so easily compared to today.