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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
You can't compare the situation today and the situation in 1789. It's apples and oranges. The Bill or Rights and the Constitution still apply today, but the context which within they work is so different. Because of that, they can't be expected to be applied the same way. When the 2nd amendment was passed, every state had a militia and a major war had just been won by that militia. Now there is a powerful standing army and the various states don't maintain a militia at all any more. Only 22 states have militias, and most of those are more for disaster relief then for actually military actions.
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And the Supreme Court held - in OUR times - that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an
individual's right to bear arms.
We don't use the militia to fight wars any more, but our military is still
the people. They're not "special", even if they have need of tools different from mine. There's no logical reason, only legislative reasons, the people cannot have the same tools no matter their profession.