re: #161 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The second amendment has been perverted by people who make mountains of money selling firearms. My reading of it is that the state cannot infringe on well-regulated militias, which, duh, militias are armed so the state cannot infringe on those well-regulated militias’ arms. The perverted reading comes when individuals are declaring themselves well-regulated militias and arm themselves to the teeth, burying caches of ammunition in their backyards. An absolutist reading of the second amendment would say that I am a militia and I can procure shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles because of the second amendment.

The text is outdated. And over 200 years of different readings of the text, this is what we’ve come to. 11,000 (I don’t know, is it more these days?) gun deaths a year and something on the order of 300 million guns floating around in the United States.