@jeffw to politics • 2 months agoBiden says it’s ‘time to outlaw’ AR-15 after Trump assassination attemptwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square461arrow-up1702arrow-down142
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minus-square@Viking_Hippielink-6•2 months ago The entirety of federalist 29 is about the second amendment. I think it’s safe to assume the paragraph I quoted from federalist 29 also is. Suuure it is 🙄 Calling militias “the best possible defense” against a standing federal army seems pretty cut and dry. Except that’s not what the amendment itself says. That’s Alexander Hamilton’s opinion, NOT the rationale that was agreed on when drafting the text No mind reading necessary, just regular reading. And a bit of imagination to make the unconnected pieces fit together to mean what you want them to mean. You’re acting no better than the libertarian nutjobs who insist that taxation is theft and also unconstitutional.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 months agoIf my choices are the opinion of one of the guys who wrote the amendment vs the opinion of some teenager on Lemmy, I’m gonna have to go with the former
minus-square@Viking_Hippielink-4•edit-22 months agothe opinion of one of the guys who wrote the amendment ≠ the amendment OR the reason for the amendment, which explicitly mentions the ACTUAL reason. That shouldn’t be so difficult a concept to grasp.
Suuure it is 🙄
Except that’s not what the amendment itself says. That’s Alexander Hamilton’s opinion, NOT the rationale that was agreed on when drafting the text
And a bit of imagination to make the unconnected pieces fit together to mean what you want them to mean.
You’re acting no better than the libertarian nutjobs who insist that taxation is theft and also unconstitutional.
If my choices are the opinion of one of the guys who wrote the amendment vs the opinion of some teenager on Lemmy, I’m gonna have to go with the former
the opinion of one of the guys who wrote the amendment ≠ the amendment OR the reason for the amendment, which explicitly mentions the ACTUAL reason.
That shouldn’t be so difficult a concept to grasp.
Ok champ