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billh58

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3. They didn't mean
Wed Feb 12, 2014, 01:51 PM
Feb 2014

for citizens to take up arms against the government. The Second Amendment was written to establish a civilian militia (similar to what Switzerland employs) in lieu of a standing army.

Congress has the power to establish a standing army -- and they did.

Right-wing Second Amendment absolutists, and the five right-wing SCOTUS justices (as so eloquently pointed out by Justice Stevens in his dissent in Heller) have misinterpreted the simple one sentence Second Amendment to fit their own profit motivated agenda -- at the behest of the NRA (ALEC/Koch Brothers) and at the expense of the overwhelming majority of Americans who do not own guns.

The notion that the various states' civilian "militias" have any sort of relevancy to the "security of a free State," or that they are "well regulated" is ridiculous.

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