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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by paulryanrogers on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:31PM (#31514139)
2A says militias were the reason for guns. Now we have the national guard. Private gun ownership is much less useful than it once was. England is doing reasonably well without them. Worth a try here IMO.
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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by remarkEon on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:07AM (#31514390)
If you go back and read what the people who wrote that amendment said, they note repeatedly that it was an individual right unbounded to membership in a militia, which, bizarrely, has been conflated today with being in the National Guard - a state run organization.
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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by paulryanrogers on Thursday May 26, 2022 @08:48AM (#31517654)
Citation?

Even if accurate for all the amendment signers consider the world they lived in compared to ours. I can see private gun ownership having more utility in 1800 than today. And considering the cost in lives, injuries, and distress guns don't appear to be with the externalities IMO.

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