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In reply to the discussion: My 2nd amendment argument [View all]brush
(61,033 posts)which is obviously what they meant since they were referring to a militia, a force formed to protect a free state if they had written that instead of "of the people" to keep and bears arms, we wouldn't be in this mess today where gun humpers, the NRA and their clients, gun manufacturers, prefer to interpret the 2nd Amendment as the right of anyone who wants a military-style killing weapon to get one and keep it near in case he/she/they get the urge to use it to kill or to buy one that very day to kill.
We really need to update parts of the Constitution to reflect today's realities where there are easily accessible military-style, killing weapons instead of the one-round-per-approximately-two-minutes-or-so muzzle loading weapons that were state-of-the-art then.
We have become a nation where one has to think twice about going to places where a lot of people gather. And we're talking about necessities such as grocery stores, banks, schools, houses of worship and on and on.
We're descending rapidly into a state of armed dystopia where mass shootings happen daily.
It's scary.