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“If you want a second amendment, you need to also support defunding the military and a return to militias and mercenaries.” That doesn’t follow from this: “Bo
by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
“If you want a second amendment, you need to also support defunding the military and a return to militias and mercenaries.”
That doesn’t follow from this:
“Both the Federalists and Anti-Federalists opposed a standing army and saw it as a tool of oppressors.”
- moate 7y agoWhy not? If the 2nd amendment is in place to prevent the need for a standing army by allowing for militias to exist and serve as the defense force therefor the maintenance of a standing army is unneeded. The other option is that you support a standing army which is a tool of oppression. Either you support the 2nd amendment as a means of national defense or your support handing the tools of oppression to the government, per the founding fathers.
- DATACOMMANDER 7y agoWhere did you get the idea that the only purpose of a “well-regulated militia” is to completely replace a standing army? Just because some of the founders were against the idea of standing armies doesn’t mean that they saw it as an “either/or” proposition.