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It’s not cryptic. Read the damn preamble, the part about “prevent abuse and misconstruction of powers”. The 2A was written in BECAUSE we have a standing army,
by madengr 9y ago
It’s not cryptic. Read the damn preamble, the part about “prevent abuse and misconstruction of powers”. The 2A was written in BECAUSE we have a standing army, since “a standing army is dangerous to liberty”.
It’s only cryptic to liberals who want to abolish it. I’m so tired of the BS; just friggin move to the pansy-assed EU, or some 3rd world thugocracy, where only the government has guns. I’ll take freedom and insecurity.
- threatofrain 9y agoLegal reading is anything but intuitive or natural. Or does one think that a plain reading of the Constitution unlocks its interpretation?
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