• BlameThePeacock
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    3 days ago

    If the supreme court agrees, we’ll get to test how well the second amendment helps maintain a free country.

    I’m going to assume it does nothing, and all the gun deaths were for nothing.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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      The second amendment was created to make it impossible for the president to have a standing army.

      That was the whole “militia” thing. Federalist Paper 29 covers the entirety of it in like … 12 paragraphs.

      The states would have to require every man to own a firearm and train to be in a militia as designated by Congress that would muster for national defense because armies make empires. And newly created US Americans wanted to be free of imperial horseshit.

      The second amendment wasn’t to defeat a president who broke bad. Men elected to POTUS were never supposed to be like Trump. And that was our, as US Americans, biggest blindspot. That an American president would never treat Americans like how American presidents treat smaller nations.

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        2 days ago

        That ain’t how the current supreme court interprets it, so let them eat cake.

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      If the supreme court agrees, we’ll get to test how well the second amendment helps maintain a free country.

      Look at Jan 6. That is exactly what they think is happening. They are making America great again. There is a reason people are getting doxxed.