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Originally Posted by candyflip
He's not ignoring it you idiot. He's explaining it to you based on the Supreme Courts ruling. You are either to dense to understand or you just don't want to.
I'm going to go with the dumb angle.
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I am well aware of the Supreme Court's standing on the issue.
At the same time, I am also well aware of how we (and thus the Supreme Court) has defined the second amendment throughout the years. Prior to 1965, the second amendment was not used to defend our right to own firearms. It was used to define, protect, and encourage militias - which was expected to be used to protect our country if we were ever attacked. This lasted until 1903 (I believe) with the Militia Act of 1903 (I think that's what it's called), when the militia officially became part of the US military in the form of the - surprise - National Guard.
It's funny really - our government expected it's citizens to defend the government using the second amendment. Now it's just the opposite - we are afraid the government is going to take away our second amendment.
In the meantime, firearms and ammo are flying off the shelves.