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if you had your way, dk, and the american legal system could not adapt to changing conditions through the development of legal precedents in case law, the constitutional order that you fetishize so would have collapsed long ago. you cant have it both ways: you can't act as though "original intent" is a legitimate guide for interpreting the constitution and not accept that the result of this would be constitutional crises. each constitutional crisis would result in a new document, and each new document would reconsider the question of guns....
i am really not sure that you want to go down this road--it sounds like you have some totally different idea about what the consequences of "original intent" as a way of thinking about the constitution....how do you imagine that the result of that would work?
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