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Say It With Bullets
How we got the Second Amendment.
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(Some historians who filed a Supreme Court brief for D.C. take the exact opposite approach — “for the common defence” is somehow redundant, but the definition was removed to keep the government from having to maintain the entire population as a “well regulated” militia.)
The gun debate, not to mention gun technology, has changed significantly since the Founding era. The Constitution didn’t spring from concerns about protection against crime, and there’s no obvious way to decide what modern guns the Framers would have defined as “Arms.”
But there’s no doubt at all that the Second Amendment secures the right of the citizens to own guns. A read through The Founders’ View of the Right to Bear Arms is a great way to understand that.
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