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104. Spare me the bullshit reading of the 2nd Am foisted on us by Scalia.

It flies in the face of the text itself, framers' intent, and over 100 years of Supreme Court precedent. The 2nd Am was written to prevent the formation of a standing army in peacetime, something the framers were very weary of. So they put in that provision for citizen militias as a way to avoid the need for standing armies. And of course the framers were talking muskets for those militias, not AR-15s with 100-round magazines, and even then they had to be "well regulated."

But we ended up with standing armies anyway, and for almost 200 years the 2nd Amendment was pretty much ignored as an anachronism. But the gun lobby glommed onto it sometime in the 1970s and by the 1980s that whole "right to bear arms" talking point gained traction among the right. All they needed was the conservative majority of the Supreme Court to catch on and they did in 2008 in that 5-4 abomination of an opinion, DC v. Heller.