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Originally Posted by krwlz
Just to point out a few things. If the constitution was unchangeable, alchohol never would have become illegal in the first place, and there was no law that said black had to be slaves. The practices were there none the less, but they were never part of the constitution. In fact, freeing them, was in part, a recognition that we were defying our own constitution.
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Yeah... that's my point.
How can anyone know what the amendment was designed to protect? I don't think anyone today had much of a say in creating it.
All I'm saying is that in the law, it says that the weapons are for the purpose of a well regulated militia- one that has not been necessary in the over 200 years of this country, unless you count the civil war as a good use of militia.
Also, please don't deride my knowledge of the situation. I've studied history, and all the arguments concerning it don't change the fundamental purpose of weapons: to kill things.
By the way, I wasn't talking about slavery. I was talking, as I thought my post made quite clear, about the three-fifths clause- which indeed was in the constitution. Read it. Then come back with a more informed opinion.