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If you go back and read what the people who wrote that amendment said, they note repeatedly that it was an individual right unbounded to membership in a militia
by remarkEon 4y ago
If you go back and read what the people who wrote that amendment said, they note repeatedly that it was an individual right unbounded to membership in a militia, which, bizarrely, has been conflated today with being in the National Guard - a state run organization.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoCitation? Even if accurate for all the amendment signers consider the world they lived in compared to ours. I can see private gun ownership having more utility in 1800 than today. And considering the cost in lives, injuries, and distress guns don't appear to be with the externalities IMO.