I'm gonna say it and I don't care what gun nuts think...

[veganlush]

74. It's says the right to bear arms

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...shall not be infringed. Are you telling me that you don't think restrictions are infringements? It doesn't say "shall be infringed" it's says shall NOT be infringed, yet I'm sure you don't think all of the many infringements should be removed. You can't have it both ways. Do you believe it it or not? One of the reasons for the amendment that I have heard, is to make sure citizens are armed against a "tyrannical" government. At the time, arms brandished by the "government" were the same as arms available to everyone. There is nothing in the amendment that implies that they intended for the citizens to be out gunned by the "government". Arms back then were rifles or whatever you want tho call them. If they intended parity between the people and the government of, by and for the people, then you must believe that a modern interpretation of the amendment requires that flame throwers, drones, hand grenades, nuclear weapons, hell- air craft and aircraft carriers, lasers, whatever, be available to every-damn-body because after all, every-damn-body is what they meant by "well regulated militia". And this should be without all the current infringements that prevent minors, mentally ill, criminals, etc...from owning AND carrying them everywhere.