OldLady
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Honestly, I believe they made the wording of the 2nd Amendment fuzzy on purpose because when the issue came up, there was as much heated, stiff necked argument about it then as we have today.The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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it's so liberal to not see the big picture.
They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.
But the Founding Fathers never intended the second amendment to mean we could bear arms, just militias.
They just forgot to enforce this for about 200 years or so.