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As the founders intended the people to be the ultimate check imo, what is standard issue to a gi should be available.
Because civil liberty isn't negotiable. Gunphobes wouldn't stand for treating our rights to speech and voting the same way we they do the second.
originally posted by: narrator
originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: narrator
You failed to acknowledge this:
At the time when the second was written the people could keep the same weapons as any soldier. Why would time change that?
as I posted, lots of reasons, the need was demonstrated by the quotes and actions of the founders.
Time has not changed that need. That need has been demonstrated globally by nations all over the planet in the time since the founders included the 2nd. That reflects on the wisdom of the founders imo.
And I just completely disagree with that. GIs go through months of training. The average citizen does not, they just go to a store and buy the gun. You can't compare the two, it's apples to watermelons.
originally posted by: TheTruthRocks
a reply to: narrator
Ah, but you didn't see the line "the right of the people." It does not say 'the right of a well regulated militia'.
There are two considerations: militia, AND the people. Look:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The framers were very careful to word it this way.