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Originally Posted by buggyone
I don't think the writers of the Bill of Rights had streetsweeper shotguns in mind when they did their writing.
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The founders also didn't live with street gangs armed by drug cartels and muslim extremist terrorists providing machine guns and the stuff for nuclear "dirty bombs" brought across our porous borders. The colonial constables and sheriffs' firearms were pretty much equal with the attackers' firearms.
Which brings us to the brilliance of the founders' composition of the constitution and Bill of Rights:
They had the honesty and brains to admit in the first place that our nation HAS enemies who want to annihilate our model of government of a free-speaking people.
Today we don't even get an admission that we HAVE the blatant threats of those who vow to wipe us off the face of the earth, and have the capability to do it!! Denial "works" for many people now.