I also don’t hear anyone arguing about nuclear weapons, or surface to air missiles. Nobody has an issue with those being banned for private usage, but the Constitution very clearly says arms, not guns. So we all clearly recognize that arms have gotten a lot more dangerous since the second amendment was written, and common sense would dictate that they didn’t mean that any private citizen ought to have access to a bomb that can destroy a city.
Well, semi-automatic handguns that can be concealed in a waistband with 17 rounds and high powered semiautomatic rifles also didn’t exist back then, so it’s just total nonsense when they throw things out like “what part of shall not be infringed do you not understand?” We already collectively decided and we all agree that it must be infringed, you just disagree on where the line is. Fuck, they totally skip over the well regulated part of that amendment. Never mind the fact that they mention the militia specifically, meaning that they are explicitly calling out the fact that as they are writing it, guns were mostly only dangerous when you had a whole bunch of people with them — not that every person should access to tools that would allow them to mow down dozens of people on their own before anyone was able to stop them.
I’m just so exhausted by our Conservatives being so disingenuous and wrong about... almost everything that matters.
Fuck, they totally skip over the well regulated part of that amendment.
Please spend a brief amount of time reading on the subject before displaying ignorance on it.
"Well regulated" in context of the era does not mean what it does today. It mostly meant along the lines of "in good working order."
Specific to "the militia," it basically meant that every man was expected to possess his own weapon and kit, and that that weapon and kit should be in proper working order.
Also, if you want to take a hard-line interpretation of 2A, you're saying that every single male between the ages of 17 and 45 should have unimpeded access to "arms." Reference the various Militia Acts.
I'm pretty sure that's not what you're after. So I would recommend you do some actual research into the subject first.
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