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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
So how did the USA get to be a democracy, then? I suppose that instead of a 'militia of individuals' that rebelled against the order of things and consequently lead to the evolvement of a different way of organising society in a certain way, you simply had a handful of people going ''Yawn, i'm bored with this shit, let's change it to something else instead, shall we?''.
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The Constitution was written in a time with the nation was small enough and the weapons primitive enough that one man, with a gun, could do very little damage alone while a militia of the majority could overthrow a corrupt government.
And then a little thing called World War I came along with the machine gun. And then eventually the Cold War with the hyper development of the military.
All the second amendment provides now is a semi-reasonable excuse for the paranoid like marleypumpkin to shoot up his local post office with an assault rifle.