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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 12:23 PM EDT |
"I believe it means that citizens have the right to own and learn to use
and maintain those weapons in case they might join or get drafted into a
militia. That more closely fits the historical perspective of the writers of the
document. The colonies' soldiers brought and used their own weapons."
A little more historical perspective, in deeper background, is that slavery was
still in operation at the time this amendment was under consideration. The
slave population was growing fast and there was a need to quickly raise a well
armed militia to put down any revolts.
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Bondfire
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 09:49 AM EDT |
2nd Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the
security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
not be infringed.
Your interpretation
[...] that
citizens have the right to own and learn to use and maintain those weapons in
case they might join or get drafted into a militia.
seems to be
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