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Originally Posted by TheWarriors
I don’t think you quite understand why the Second Amendment exists. Perhaps you would like to apply the same logic to all the other Amendments?
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I sure do understand it. Seems a lot of people don't though.
The "why" isn't "why do we still have 2a" or "why wasn't 2a better clarified?" It's "why does it exist?"
It exists because at the time of the founding of this country, we didn't have the National Guard. Our country wasn't a "United" states of America, it was individual states working together to ensure freedom from Britain and a tyrannical government. So when it came time to fight Britain, the people (also known as We The People) rose up together, formed our militias, and brought our own weapons to the fight. We didn't have armories that provided arms for us. We had to use our own. But carrying a firearm in public was ILLEGAL at the time. And so - the right of THE PEOPLE...to keep and bear arms - was adopted.
That is the reason the 2nd Amendment exists.