Originally Posted by Howitzer

The part about the 2nd amendment that strikes me the most is its specific intend to keep citizens armed to keep the government in check with a citizen militia. Back then the military had very few special weapons that a citizen could not fund and own themselves, since their intent is well known I wonder what they would write in 2008. I'm unsure about the outcome because their intent was to abolish a large central government....that part didn't work out so well.