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Scott Dorsey wrote:

The initial intention of the second amendment was to preserve the ability
to have a revolution; that is, it exists to protect the right to form an
independent militia. As such, it really shouldn't apply at all to handguns,
which are of little military use, and it should instead protect your right
to own tanks, bomber aircraft, and nuclear weapons, which are the current
state of the art military hardware in much the way that guns were in 1789.

The thing is, modern military hardware can make asymmetric warfare very very
effective, and there are some good arguments why one might not want to allow
private ownership of nuclear weapons, for instance.

So we are kind of stuck in a difficult place that was never really forseen
by the founding fathers, and which people on both sides of the aisle today
persist in ignoring.


Which in essence is why the thing is sorely in need of a rewrite - or outright repeal! lol