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riversedge

(70,186 posts) Sun Apr 18, 2021, 03:09 PM Apr 2021

What guns were like when our Founders wrote the "The second Amendment"......

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What guns were like when our Founders wrote the "The second Amendment"...... (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2021 OP

It should be evident to any sentient being that the 2nd Amendment as interpreted now... brush Apr 2021 #1

Half of the voting pop. in USA are not senient beings. riversedge Apr 2021 #2

Well...there is that. Makes one almost favor vote suppression. brush Apr 2021 #3

brush

(53,764 posts)

1. It should be evident to any sentient being that the 2nd Amendment as interpreted now...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 03:35 PM

Apr 2021

has to itself to be amended to reflect the founding fathers' actual intent—meant for state-sponsored militia, not every Tom, Dick, and Magat.

And throw in the Electoral College as well—no I take that back—throw out the EC altogether.

riversedge

(70,186 posts)

2. Half of the voting pop. in USA are not senient beings.

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 04:13 PM

Apr 2021

brush

(53,764 posts)

3. Well...there is that. Makes one almost favor vote suppression.

Reply to riversedge (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 04:17 PM

Apr 2021

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