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Originally Posted by Russ_Boston
I love how people say something like "It's part of our constitution". In case you missed it our constitution has been amended with 27 official amendments (including the 2nd) and clarified with tens of thousands of court rulings. Things need to be re-interpreted from time to time based on new technology and new economies etc. Maybe it's time to re-clarify this amendment.
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I agree. So much of the 1780s world is so different from the world of today. The Freedom of the Press, Religious Freedom, the Right to Bear Arms, Freedom of Speech all of these rights mean something quite different in say 1945 than they do after the Founders put in the Bill of Rights. They mean something quite different now in 2013 as well.
I can understand many Americans being adamant about the right to bears arms during WWII when they were afraid that German, Russian, Italian or Japanese troops might land on the two coasts. They did bomb Hawaii and invade some Alaskan islands as well as sunk various ships near coasts.
U.S. Merchant Ships Sunk or Damaged in World War II
And, Indian war parties did raid various settlements up to 1911.
American Indian Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Battle of Kelley Creek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can see some of the Founding Fathers might argue for the right to have muskets, ax, sword and the like for common white male landowners. Not sure if they would argue though for them having things like dynamite or large stores of black powder, cannon, crude grenade, etc.
Bet that the Founding Fathers would see the reason of storing black powder barrels in a reasonable place where they would not have a chance to catch fire and blow up whatever surrounding structures were there.
Gun Safety Regulation in Early America