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That amendment was written back when a gun was more powerful than words or information, and when gun ownership was more prevalent and necessary.

In our modern day information, speech, and and privacy are the guns that ensure rights are not stomped on. It’s no longer the wild wild west.

To think that rules written hundreds of years ago never need to be changed is spitting in the face of our founders who realized that the process of amendments are necessary because things change. The irony is that people are defending the second amendment by claiming it cannot be amended.




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I don’t understand your rebuttal?


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By the time the KGB come knocking at your door it’s already over.

What we need is an amendment guaranteeing our right to encryption and privacy, so that the KGB won’t even know which door to knock on.

Back then your arms were pretty well matched against the government. Today, not so much. Civilians and their small arms are no match for the KGB or modern US military. If we really wanted a way to check the physical power of the US military we’d need a bit more than some semi automatic rifles. They are literally in their current form just play things for the wealthy who don’t want to give up their gun hobby, and liabilities for the rest of civilian society due to the criminally insane.




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