This is definitely a case of being able to see what you want. The constitution can be amended to cover situations as they change over time, but it's clear that at the time of its writing the intent was to try to insure that citizens could own weapons in order to form their own state Militias. Obviously hunting was a way of putting food on the table back then and the types of discussions we have today about owning weapons just weren't pertinent.
Buy my understanding assault weapons should be legal and sporting arms be suspect. So so much for the strict wording. The problem is that there's a different kind of folk attending gun shows and fly casting shows. Not all gun owners are loons, but the concern is that most loons are into guns. Those loons being your basic apt to go postal type.
We should try to find a way to identify these loonies and get them out of the gene pool.

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