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[–] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Well some historians say the 2nd amendment isn't about guns, which everyone already had back then, but says states should have their own military.

"Bear arms" means militarization. Not owning a gun. But using a gun.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-nra-rewrote-second-amendment

It actually was the nra lobbying that changed public and legal interpretation.

Owning a gun does little against tyranny.

But a state militia does.

That's what it actually meant.

The Second Amendment consists of just one sentence: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” 

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