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So I, a perfectly adequately fit of mind and body individual, should give up my constitutional rights because some people can't control themselves?


Yes. Correct. Also yours is a a bullshit interpretation of a bullshit constitutional amendment that should be amended out. Also you’re not always the best judge of your behavior, which is a natural consequence of the fact that there’s more than one person inhabiting this planet.


I never expressed an interpretation of the 2nd amendment. Clearly you jumped to conclusions about that, as you did my ability to judge my mental state. I'd be perfectly happy to form a militia with some of my comrades, and have the right to bear arms restricted to that context, so long as the government likewise recognized that the right to bear arms has nothing at all to do with personal defense, and thus justifications around "civilians don't need X weapon because it's a weapon of war" don't stand muster.


Insane, boring, tendentious, or some combination thereof? Who knows! Bye.




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