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2nd Amendment. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed
by salawat 5y ago
2nd Amendment.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The keep there bundles the acts of manufacture, upkeep, and maintenance. Arms? What is a man's tool if not his weapon beared in the everyday struggle that is keeping civilization peacefully chugging along day by day.
You may disagree with the broad reading; but hell, if everyone else gets to split hairs to try to turn these damn things into an excuse to shackle people's liberties, might as well have an interpretation or two grant a few back.
- JoeyBananas 5y agoA much more convincing argument would be that r2r falls under the umbrella of the right to private property in general. What you're saying would only apply to r2r for weapons. Repair is a right, but the right to repair movement goes far beyond the right of an individual to do what they want with their property. R2r involves requiring businesses to sell spair parts and go out of their way to support people who want to repair things.
- salawat 5y agoI was replying to the assertion that no Constitutionally granted right suggests a right to repair. The 2nd Amendment very clearly does in explicitly calling out a citizen's right to keep arms, which back then also meant in being secure I the capacity to keep those arms operating. Nevermind the 10tg that calls out everything not explicitly listed, and sets up an implicit grant to the People of any Rights not specifically disincluded by State Constitutions. So the entire assertion of the non-existence of a right to repair is fundamentally ludicrous.