Imagine writing a law in 2023, with only 27 words, to regulate weapons built by future generations in 2255—despite your zero knowledge of tech 232 years in the future—and no other context is available.
That's how absurd it sounds when people today claim a 1791 Amendment encompasses all weapons in 2023 and cannot be questioned in any capacity.
@QasimRashid If militias aren’t necessary for the defense of the state, now that we have a standing army, having an armed population is also no longer necessary.
@montetrecarte @QasimRashid Just as the 3rd Amendment banning the quartering of soldiers in people's homes is completely irrelevant today, the full context of the 2nd Amendment and its key mention of "well-regulated militias" should also be seen as archaic and outdated.
Instead, all the focus is on "keep and bear" and, as you say, ignores the fact we're not hauling around muskets and blunderbusses anymore. Now it's intended-to-be-maximally-lethal weapons of war.
