• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    How do you interpret all that if not that the 2nd amendment exists to overthrow/incite war with a tyrranical government?

    It does exist to do that. To make it possible. But you kept arguing that it existed to make it “a legally protected right,” which is a different thing.

    How many times do I have to explain to you that “possible” and “legal” are not equivalent before you finally get it?

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      What is the purpose of the bill of rights in the constitution? To establish a set of legally protected rights. If the 2nd amendment exists, as they said, for this exact purpose, then it exists to give people that right. It doesn’t. It was to allow small trained militias to be formed to protect the homefront from outside threats. Not to destroy the nation they had literally just formed.