It seems to me the problems with the second amendment are twofold:
1. It was written under the assumption that there would be no standing army, so the citizen militia would be the backbone of the defense of the nation. But that isn’t where we are today, unfortunately.
2. A large part of the US seems to believe that getting rid of guns would make the US less violent. I suspect they are completely wrong about that. Our National myth is about using violence to successfully solve problems, from the original revolution through our successes in several wars.
So we are stuck with an extremely divisive issue which really has no impact on anything real.
> So we are stuck with an extremely divisive issue which really has no impact on anything real.
The 2nd is a canary. Its song is the relationship between security and freedom. Should the canary die, then expect the invocation of the rule of sic temper tyrannis...HHOS.
Let’s just leave it be and keep that impact theoretical.
1. It was written under the assumption that there would be no standing army, so the citizen militia would be the backbone of the defense of the nation. But that isn’t where we are today, unfortunately.
2. A large part of the US seems to believe that getting rid of guns would make the US less violent. I suspect they are completely wrong about that. Our National myth is about using violence to successfully solve problems, from the original revolution through our successes in several wars.
So we are stuck with an extremely divisive issue which really has no impact on anything real.