As the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights reads:
"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."
My question is this: Am I the only person who see's the fact that Military is controlled by the government and that Militias, necessary at the time of writing this document, are virtually nonexistant in the context of which they were writing?
No longer having groups like the Minute Men, do we really need freedom to bear fully automatic assault rifles?
Guns in the late 1700s were muzzle loaders which weren't accurate at 30 feet. Today we have fully automatic pistols, which cost nothing to manufacture, that can be concealed under a jacket. Do people really need weapons like this to keep up a nonexistant Militia??
2007-11-09
17:36:19
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