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The second amendment is really short. The current interpretation taken to its final conclusion (which will probably happen) is no limits at all. Open carry a lo

The second amendment is really short. The current interpretation taken to its final conclusion (which will probably happen) is no limits at all. Open carry a loaded m16 in the middle of NYC? That's your right. The other way of reading it is that this is about well regulated militias, that the government cannot stop organized shooting practise. Anything beyond that is up to state or federal law. The final way of looking at it is that with standing armies of the US this is no longer needed, and perhaps slave owners from before 1800 perhaps did not have all the answers.

sofixa 4y ago
> and perhaps slave owners from before 1800 perhaps did not have all the answers. Until Americans realise that fetishising and religiously following the words of slaveowners from the 18th century isn't necessarily the best idea, nothing will change. It's weird how the "Constitution" is taken as the words of a deity that cannot be touched and cannot be wrong by some. Especially a bad and extremely ambiguous constitution like the American one, where the Supreme court has decided tons of things based on weird interpretations, instead of, you know, actually enacting laws and amending the constitution to add those things.