The 2nd Amendment was written for a different time.

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40. Read the first ten amendments closely and you'll see a theme emerge

They were written specifically to stop the abuses of the British Crown from happening here.

The First Amendment was to stop two things: people getting locked up or beheaded because the king didn’t like what they said, and to prevent the establishment of an official church.

The Third Amendment was to keep the army from turning people’s homes into barracks.

All the judicial amendments were to prevent the abuses of the Star Chamber from happening here.

The ninth amendment is there to say “everything we haven’t made a law for, you can do.”

And the 10th amendment basically says “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” - it allows the states to write laws governing conduct within their borders.

Now for the dread Second. It is there because Thomas Jefferson hated professional armies and didn’t want one here...which goes to prove he had a memory about as long as his nose, because the militias formed of men grabbing their deer rifles to fight the British damn near lost the Revolution. The only reason we won that war is George Washington bailed Baron von Steuben out of jail (where, in case you were unaware, he was about to be executed for being gay) and put him in charge of the army. We tried that shit again in the Mexican-American War and, once again, had to professionalize the Army.

So...the “well regulated militia” Jefferson envisioned didn’t work and won’t work. We can safely get rid of the useless assault rifles.

And best of all, because there has already been one uncompensated gun grab in the last five years, when the hard right’s hero told people to just hand over their bump stocks or destroy them, getting rid of these guns won’t cost us anything.