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Define 'gun.' If there was a handheld contraption with a trigger that could fire a small nuclear projectile that could destroy an entire city would the right t
by nswest23 4y ago
Define 'gun.'
If there was a handheld contraption with a trigger that could fire a small nuclear projectile that could destroy an entire city would the right to have one be protected by the second amendment just because it fits the general definition of a gun?
- mlindner 4y agoI'm not going to play semantics games.
- nswest23 4y agoIt's not a game. The founders could not have foreseen the types of weapons that we quite arbitrarily consider to be 'guns' as described in the constitution, therefore if anyone is playing games it is the people who call themselves 'originalists' when they pretend that it is that philosophy that informs their judicial opinions.