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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Leaving aside for a moment the elephant in the room - that the Second Amendment is, on the face of it, simply a mechanism for citizens to be armed as soldiers against threats to the sovereignty of the nation. In essence, at the time of our nation's founding, we were an approximation of modern-day Switzerland (link is to FB). Thus, Red Dawn is an expression of strict Constitutionalism! The following is a sanitized quoting of Rude Pundit's suggestions for contemporary firearms ownership in America.
[begin quoting, including his links, though I am reformatting and pasteurizing; the original can be found here]
( RP's stuff under the cut )
Leaving aside for a moment the elephant in the room - that the Second Amendment is, on the face of it, simply a mechanism for citizens to be armed as soldiers against threats to the sovereignty of the nation. In essence, at the time of our nation's founding, we were an approximation of modern-day Switzerland (link is to FB). Thus, Red Dawn is an expression of strict Constitutionalism! The following is a sanitized quoting of Rude Pundit's suggestions for contemporary firearms ownership in America.
[begin quoting, including his links, though I am reformatting and pasteurizing; the original can be found here]
( RP's stuff under the cut )
