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Originally Posted by filtherton
And you don't often hear second amendment advocates lamenting the loss of their right to own nuclear weapons.
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In public, anyway.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
[F]or all the foresight the founders did have, they apparently lacked the foresight to take into account the tendency for cultures and technology to change.
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Or they really thought that Joe Citizen should be trusted to keep any weapon he could make or get someone to sell him, regardless of technological advances or trends in popular sentiment... because it was that important to the security of freedom.