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Re: Will Supreme Court terminate the 2nd Amendment?
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Originally Posted by tiny tim
Thanks for the clear answers. So if Bill Gates wants to install ICBM silos in his front yard, your cool with that? See I'm a bit suspicious of people who give the founding fathers powers of foresight. I think if they foresaw the weapons technology of today, they would have clarified the 2nd Amendment a bit. By the same token, if they foresaw internet porn, they would have clarified the 1st. But I agree, it's the law as it stands and it would take an amendment to change it. It's also one of those political football issues that both sides like to have, so I don't see it ever changing much one way or the other.
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Absolutely correct.
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Originally Posted by CYDdharta
The founding fathers weren’t idiots. They had enough powers of foresight to realize that things would change in the future, that’s why they incorporated a method of amending the Constitution. If today’s weapons technology is so different from what was available when the Constitution was ratified, it should be amended, not legislated or litigated away.
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They argued about what it was suppose to mean then. They may not have been idiots but they could not have had any idea what things would be like in 100 years ie electricity and the combustion engine. That is not their fault. Whose fault it is is the luddites who cynically cower behind an outdated irrelevant law when they find themselves bereft of logical argument.
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