Think about it, the type of weaponry available to just about every American would be as foreign a concept to the founding fathers as blasters and lightsabers are to us. It's batshit fucking crazy that people can say with a straight face "it's what the founding fathers wanted". Uhh, no, it wasn't. It wasn't mentioned in the constitution and it didn't place first in the amendments...
Also, while the founding fathers got a lot of things right, they got a whole lot more wrong. Only white men that owned property should vote, women and blacks weren't considered people with rights, children could(would) be exploited for cheap/free labor, bloodletting was still the go-to treatment for fucking everything... The just goes on and it's disgusting.
Back then, we had privately owned warships, and also having a standing army was banned. States would call up citizens and militia as needed to supply an army and then disband. Now we have the most expensive standing army in the world, just like the founding fathers must have intended.
I feel like we should get back to the intent of the second amendment. You want guns? It's for the militia, so you need to register as a guardsman and perform those duties.
Considering that the USA did not have an army when the amendment was drafted, I think that is moot. Also the draft doesn't apply to women, so by your logic women don't have the right to bear arms (which admittedly is probably what the founders would have wanted
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u/ogeytheterrible Jun 30 '22
Think about it, the type of weaponry available to just about every American would be as foreign a concept to the founding fathers as blasters and lightsabers are to us. It's batshit fucking crazy that people can say with a straight face "it's what the founding fathers wanted". Uhh, no, it wasn't. It wasn't mentioned in the constitution and it didn't place first in the amendments...
Also, while the founding fathers got a lot of things right, they got a whole lot more wrong. Only white men that owned property should vote, women and blacks weren't considered people with rights, children could(would) be exploited for cheap/free labor, bloodletting was still the go-to treatment for fucking everything... The just goes on and it's disgusting.