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Originally Posted by crisis
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 Whose fault it is is the luddites who cynically cower behind an outdated irrelevant law when they find themselves bereft of logical argument.
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Of course they had no specific knowledge of what rights and liberties would be like years in the future, but they realized this shortcoming. They created a well defined procedure to modify the Constitution to address this very problem. In this case, the second amendment was written with the understanding that every able bodied citizen would be counted on to arm themselves for the nation’s defense. If this has become an outmoded concept, the amendment should be modified or repealed, not simply dismissed out of hand.