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It's telling that gun ownership is so controversial that the Founding Fathers explicitly wrote in that guns were allowed...along with freedom of speech, religio
by manv1 4y ago
It's telling that gun ownership is so controversial that the Founding Fathers explicitly wrote in that guns were allowed...along with freedom of speech, religion, and assembly, and a bunch of restrictions on what the government could do to you.
Here people are, hundreds of years later, still trying to ban gun. Go figure.
- krapp 4y agoYes, and of course the Founding Fathers were always in agreement and always right about everything, and nothing they ever said or believed should ever be questioned. And the government that wrote the Second Amendment certainly never supported any gun control laws, restrictions or bans at all. Never question the narrative. Keep buying guns and keep loving freedom.
- SomeHacker44 4y agoGuns were allowed only in service of militia duties.
- Vecr 4y agoNot by current (post 2008, and disagreed on much before that) supreme court interpretation, where the whole part about the free state and militia are a goal statement. Even if you take the militia thing to mean what you think it means, all free (i.e. non-slave/imprisoned) men between the ages of 17/18 and thirty-something would be part of the unorganized militia and required or encouraged to own a gun and other military equipment (like a rucksack, powder, ball, etc.), ready to form up in the case of unrest, invasion, tyranny, etc. I think it was actually 17-36, but don't quote me on that. It would be annoying for SCOTUS to deal with due to problems with women and the draft (congress, are you going to sort that out?), but in theory it could be workable.