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Come to think of it, something else none of you Constitutional geniuses seem to understand is this: The fact the 2nd Amendment does not guarantee the individual right to own weaponry does not mean that all guns should be, or would be, banned.
The Constitution doesn't explicity give you the right to own an automobile, but no one is going to take away your cars.
If you want to win the argument for legal gun ownership, you'll have to do it with reasoning and statistics which show that private gun ownership is.. in the balance of things.. beneficial to society. When you try to win by spouting off ill concieved opinions about the Constitution like they were immutable laws of the universe, you just make yourselves look like asses. In fact, trying to win using those tactics just makes you look like you're doing it because you can't produce a reasonable argument that private gun ownership is beneficial to modern society.
I don't think all guns should be banned, but I'm not going to try and justify my opinions by pretending this or that old document gives me an immutable, god given right to arm myself to the teeth.
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