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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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