For 150 years at least, civilians in the US had access to superior weaponry than the military. Civilians were actively engaged to participate in assisting, using their personal weapons, in the defense (and offense) of this nation.
The thought, that men who had just called upon their own untrained, undisciplined, under armed fellow citizens to rise up and face a global empire, would suddenly change their mind and feel that their regular citizenry are the ones to be constrained by their newly formed government is a farce.
It is further a moronic thought that these men, intellectual powerhouses of their time, would be completely ignorant of the fact that technology may advance. That somehow the world would completely freeze in place.
What they further knew with absolute certainty is that power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. So when setting up their new grand experiment in freedom every great pain was put into place to restrain the beast of a government they were waking.
Again, the 2nd was not put in place to reign in the citizenry. Like all the other portions of the Bill of Rights, it was put in place to place reins on the government.
The issue so many modern leftists have is they look at the past as if those men were somehow less intelligent than they are because they were raised a long time ago without electricity and running water. What they fail to realize is most of these men, by the age of 17, had accomplished more, seen more, and experienced more in their lives than we ever will.
I am actually quite certain if they were alive today (the same men who were pushed to war over a tea tax), would be appalled that we allow ourselves to be governed so heavily in the first place. If they saw modern weaponry and asked where they could get one and my response is “we can’t, it’s only for the government” they would respond with “That’s specifically what we didn’t want to happen! How can you resist tyranny if you start out at such a disadvantage!”
So, if you want to debate that “Maybe we don’t need a 2nd, we should remove it.” Then at least be honest. But trying to rewrite the absolute clear intent in which it was written shows ignorance.
And as mentioned above, people like you don’t show up to these conversations with any real intent to learn, debate, or even entertain the possibility of being corrected. You come here to spout self appointed higher morality so you can slink into your leftist echo chambers and declare a moral victory against us mouth breathing rednecks that are so hell bent on freedom and being left alone.
