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Nezmot, I don't agree with that interpretation at all. Nowhere in the text of the 2nd Amendment makes referrence to the armed overthrow of the government by militias. Note the ONLY thing that the right to bear arms is designed to protect - a "free state". Not the people. I could quible on the "spirit" of the 2nd Amendment, but I think that it's perfectly clear (to me at least) that the framers NEVER intended to provide the framework for a constitutional excuse for violent overthrow of the government. If that's was the point KnifeMissle was trying to make, well, it's ludacris.
Note - the framers of the Constitutions were NOT necessarily the framers of the Declaration of Independence. There were many of the same personalities involved, but certainly not all and certainly not the most important - Jefferson for example.
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