The historical context of the 2nd amendment

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7. That would be about quartering of troops in peacetime...

which is the only one of the first eight to have fewer court fights on it than the second. And I didn't have to peek.

(The last two don't lend themselves to litigation)

Now, with all this yakking on about rights, the second amendment is the only one to invent a right that has no philosophical or legal antecedent. Yeah-- it's entirely made up due to some odd political bullshit going on at the time and really has no more relevance to modern times than the original articles on slavery or only men being able to vote.

If anyone who calls owning guns anything more than an invented US right and thinks it's a basic human right, please show me where in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or any other discussion of rights, or any other industrialized country where unimpeded ownership of arms is considered a basic right.