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How about: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the legislatures of the several states shall be empowered to form National Guard units of the Federal Armed Forces; and furthermore, the legislatures of the several states shall empower duly constituted authorities within their jurisdictions to create police departments, whose agents may be armed during the course of their duties."
I have no objection to the governments of states permitting individuals the right to keep rifles or shotguns for the purposes of hunting during game seasons. But handguns cause more trouble than they are worth; and I certainly cannot see any reason why individual citizens should ever need military-grade assault weapons, to say nothing of heavier weapons.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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