re: #282 goddamnedfrank

The Libyans didn’t seem to find the concept outdated. I read the Second amendment as establishing a prerequisite for a free state as being a well equipped citizenry having the potential to form an effective, functioning militia. It’s one of those things where only when it’s not available that one might actually need it.

i don’t think the 2nd amendment is outdated at all. i only mean to point out that our right to bear arms and be prepared to defend ourselves needs to be re-thought in the context of radical changes in the reality of politics, technology, and warfare in the intervening 220 years

if the citizens of the united states are ever denied their right to arm themselves and have at least some means of defending themselves against the possibility of a tyrannical government, or for that matter a government that fails to defend them - that will be a very sorry day indeed