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Re:Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns by jacobolus on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @10:23AM (#27277118)
The “right” for individuals to walk around armed all the time was invented by gun manufacturers and legal activists within the past few generations. That it is now taken as some historical/constitutional standard is due to an incredibly successful propaganda/marketing effort.

The constitutional amendment is about a “well-regulated militia”. The purpose was common defense against military invasion, not citizens having intramural shoot-outs.

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Re:Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns by calvinmorrison on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @10:46AM (#27277483)
> The constitutional amendment is about a “well-regulated militia”. The purpose was common defense against military invasion, not citizens having intramural shoot-outs.

DC vs Heller disagrees

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Re:Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns by jimbilly22 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:48PM (#27279164)
Nope. This is simply factually incorrect.

Take the Pennsylvania constitution, written also in 1776 (by many of the same authors, as we know, as the federal constitution). They also have a "2a" clause. Below:

"That the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state"

There is simply no other way to interpret it -- the 2a was meant as an individual right to own common-use firearms.

Anyone who says otherwise, and is educated on the matter, is lying.

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