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Totally reasonable response lmao
whoosh (That's the point going over your head)
Great chat.
Lol I'm not gonna explain the meme over and over cause you are too lazy to scroll
Well regulated in this context means well trained btw
No it doesn't lmao.
Yes, it does.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/10/politics/what-does-the-second-amendment-actually-mean-trnd/index.html
Of course, there are a couple things to note.
One, and this is your real problem:
The National Guard is not a militia, and it definitely isn't the kind of militia you need the right to bear arms for. Militias are organizations of armed civilians that can respond to local events, while the Guard largely fulfills the role it's under government control and does not meet any of the qualifications intended by the 2nd.
The intentions of the 2nd are relatively clear, historically. To have a population capable of defending itself from enemies, including their own government, arms must be legal and available.
Of course, the biggest supporters of the 2nd were the southern states. It also very clear, historically, that they were mostly worried about slave revolts. The rest of the support came from eternal border conflicts with native tribes.
It's also very clear that they knew militias weren't worth a whole lot in a pitched battle, only the Swamp Fox really saw them have any success, by generally being a, you know, terrorist.
Which is a lot of the problem with the modern concept of anti-government militia.
We don't have slaves to repress, we don't have Indians to genocide, all they've got left to do is plan on being insurgents. And there is a very thin line between that and a terrorist.
Still, I tend to agree with other radical thinkers on the matter.
The workers must not be disarmed, lest revolution against tyrannical systems become impossible instead of merely improbable.
The problem is it's, quite frankly, just too late for America. We'll choke to death before the people know their enemies.
Except the national guard is the closest analog to the well armed militia mentioned in the 2nd amendment. The founders didn't think highly of a federal military, so the 2nd amendment was written to empower the states to organize their own militias that could be called upon when necessary. These effectively went away with the founding of the national guard since the Federal government ultimately also has control over the national guard and the 2nd amendment was interpreted to give the states freedom to regulate guns. This was the understanding until starting 2008.