• zarkanian
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    3 months ago

    You don’t have the right to make a nuclear bomb in your backyard, either.

    When they passed laws against drinking and driving, people complained that the government was taking away their rights. Same with requiring you to wear a seatbelt.

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      3 months ago

      When a nuclear bomb becomes something a regular person can make without a nation-state worth of backing let me know them we can worry about that.

      As far as driving goes it has never been a right guaranteed by the constitution. Maybe they’d have a point if it was.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        Where is it written in the Constitution again? The 2nd Amendment? So it’s only in there because the Constitution can be changed?

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          3 months ago

          And? Then change it then. If the 2nd Amendment is still there and not repealed then it’s a moot argument. Stop trying to whittle more and more of the right guaranteed by the 2nd by couching it in “common sense” bullshit.

          • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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            3 months ago

            And when it was written militaries where standing in lines firing round shot out of inaccurate tubes en-masse hoping that they might hit something. A single person with a modern SAW could have taken out an entire company unaided. You’re suggesting that there should be no adjustment based on changes to society and technology because it’s written on a specific piece of paper.

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              3 months ago

              Grapeshot. Pickleguns. There were many advancements in weaponry during the lives of the founding fathers but I don’t remember them writing all about how they were wrong because weapons are too dangerous for mere mortal civilians to own.