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[–] bufalo1973@europe.pub 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I guess the question is more in the line of "wasn't the 2nd amendment exactly for this precise situation?"

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, they would have said that if they meant that. I cannot overemphasize just how many Americans truly, actually believe that there are just bands of colored men with rifles walking around in the city streets.

[–] bufalo1973@europe.pub 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My bad. Sometimes I forget that there is no physical limit of stupidity.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." – Albert Einstein

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

It reads:

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.

Beau of the Fifth column said it best, the purpose was to put down civil insurrections (now there's cops for that, supposedly), and to fight government employees: the foreign kind, in the send of an invasion where the people would support the military; and the domestic kind, if the government went tyrannical.