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Originally Posted by Willravel
But it is outdated. Free elections, checks and balances, free press, free speech; these are necessary for a free state. Guns, once, would have made a great tool for insurrection against an oppressive government, but no longer. While I'm sure your proficiency with a gun would make you a bane to any criminal breaking into your home, you can't possibly think that you can stand up to state or federal military or police forces. Even if you had a respectable fighting force, the insurrection would devolve into terrorism (hardly well regulated) as soon as you realized that you can't take on the US military head on. As guns no longer are the key to revolution and maintaining a free state, the amendment no longer finds itself relevant. It's been reduced to either a cover for gun culture or for self-defense. You'll notice self-defense isn't named in the amendment as the reason guns are a right. If it were, I'd be formulating a completely different argument.
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free elections, free speech, checks and balances, free press.......all can be done away with or seriously hampered by that federal government. Then what would you do? Don't sit there and say that the government would never do that, unless you've forgotten the last 8 years of Bush.
It is completely naive to think that we would deign to take on the military 'head on', but that's not what well regulated was or is about. Guns (all weapons basically) would be the key to maintaining a free state. Do you really think it would be as simple as calling for a vote?