re: #172 teleskiguy

The original intent - if we are to play literalist for a minute - was to ensure that an event like the Revolutionary War, which sprang from farmers and woodsmen forming organized militias with their home arms, could be re-enacted should a tyrannical government come into play. The problem here is that a hypothetical tyrannical government would control military power of such unfathomable magnitude that it is unrealistic to expect a “home militia” of armed citizen-soldiers to be able to overcome it. I agree that the Second Amendment, as written, is outdated. I do think that there is nothing wrong with properly regulated gun ownership, but this whole ANYTHING GOES BECAUSE SECOND AMENDMENT has got to stop. Even the so-called “literalists” have gotten away from the literal meaning of the text.