Your mind reading skills suck. My intent was to correct an incorrect contention, not justify any gun laws. I believe we should still be able to own our own ships of war if we can afford them. Any gun control laws are too many.I get what you're saying, but even then the intent of your statement was to legitimize or excuse modern restrictions on firearms.
Whenever and wherever it was done back then it was wrong, and it's still wrong today.
If anything your assertion proves the point that such laws are ineffective. Boston, with a population of only 667K, has had "gun control" since the 1700's yet there were 38 homicides in the city last year, 90% of them committed with an illegal gun.
I believe our stand should be supported by factual information. I correct erroneous information where I find it. If we base any anti-gun control argument on inaccurate info, we are using our enemies tactics.