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In reply to the discussion: Would you support repeal of the Second Amendment? [View all]quaker bill
(8,263 posts)The definition of freedom of the press was for the open distribution of printed word that people could read. The act of reading has not changed, at least for those of us who can manage it, most folks still read one word at a time, and in english from left to right.
However, "bearing arms" unlike writing and reading, has changed. The power, accuracy, size, muzzle velocity, firing rate and lethality of "arms" has changed dramatically. The social context has changed. We are not frontiersmen anymore (perhaps with scant exception of folks well out in the sticks which I would be happy to abide).
Of course in that you were not clear on the fact that printing was invented well before the Consitiution was written, I do not expect a nuanced and considered response.