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Originally Posted by 1010011010
Curiously, you don't often find exceptions for muzzle loading pistols in gun control bills.
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And you don't often hear second amendment advocates lamenting the loss of their right to own nuclear weapons.
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Are you under the impression than every single able bodied male in the colonies picked up his trusty musket and kilt him some redcoats? It is expected that a revolution will start with a small number of people and, given sufficient popular support, will be able to fight and take the day. But the population must be able to give support that is relevant to the cause... and for that reason we have limited the power we grant to our government to restrict what support the population can offer to would-be revolutionaries.
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I'm not under the impression that every single able bodied male in the colonies picked up his trusty musket and kilt him some redcoats. I'm not sure who you're claiming is doing the expecting when you say "It is expected that a revolution will start with a small number of people and, given sufficient popular support, will be able to fight and take the day" or why that is a reasonable expectation. And i understand the common rationale behind the second amendment, i just think that that it was poorly written, and that the reason it was poorly written might have been that for all the foresight the founders did have, they apparently lacked the foresight to take into account the tendency for cultures and technology to change.