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[Tiangou]

cbelt3 wrote:
Sorry… I don’t want to repeal the second amendment.

I want, if necessary, to be able to suppress insurrection. That is one of the primary self uses of the second amendment...

Via militias, yes. No individual right to bear arms.

If anything, we seem to need the Constitutional Convention to restore the 2d Amendment to its original purpose. (And impose term-limits on Supreme Court justices.)

The purpose of the 2d Amendment is to provide auxiliary troops to the federal government to allow for a small standing army.

The militias serve to "execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions" at the behest of Congress. (Notably, NOT at the behest of the President!)

The military-industrial machine and standing army are the antithesis of the purpose of the 2d Amendment.