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The Second Amendment provided a constitutional check on congressional power under Article I Section 8 to organize, arm, and discipline the federal militia. The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The spirit and intent of the law was to protect every citizen from a government foreign or domestic that bullied individual rights. The amendment was a citizens “check” or recourse during a time when the British government was the bully. They even came back for a second attempt to “infringe “ their will on America in 1812.

As for a time when a citizen could own everything from a cannon to a blunderbuss, arms in this day and age are a lot less damaging (AR 15s are pop guns in comparison). Just the same, most of us aren’t going to go out and buy an RPG or a drone anytime soon. To limit someone with arms is ridiculous measure. The real enemy of our day is the self centered media, story climbing so that they can somehow glorify weapon misuse to serve their own purposes.