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5xad0w t1_iu2m2f4 wrote

If the founding fathers didn't want people selling high-powered, high-capacity semi-automatic rifles to strangers in a Wal Mart parking lot at 3 AM for well above their retail value then they would have said so in the constitution!

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psychicsword t1_iu34jfr wrote

When the constitution was written private companies and individuals had fucking canons. It isn't like they didn't have powerful weapons of war.

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Wazula42 t1_iu401jm wrote

Personally I support civilians having canons. It's the AR-15s I have a problem with.

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5xad0w t1_iu36vj7 wrote

Yeah.

It is a shame all these people sneaking canons into public schools, theaters, clubs and malls.

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myrddyna t1_iucc6c1 wrote

Stealth cannons, baby.

/pats invisible canon

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cremaster_shake t1_iu3plu0 wrote

2nd Amendment was meant to stop the federal government from grabbing state militias to use in a federal army, anyway, because the slave states were worried about slave uprisings if their militias got depleted that way.

There are no private well-regulated militias in the US. Closest thing to what the Founders were arguing about is the National Guard. We're at least not enough of a joke so the National Guard is committing school shootings, but . . . .

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myrddyna t1_iucc2me wrote

The FFs needed those ARs to corral their workforce.

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