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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel
And your basis for this proclamation is what?
"keep and bear arms" - does that not specify more than just bearing arms? If you were to keep arms, would not a legitimate use be to hunt with them?
Why especially in the 1700's? Are you suggesting that people didn't hunt then? Maybe the founding fathers were vegan?
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People like to frame the 2nd amendment in the light of hunting, and I think that does it a great diservice.
The 2nd amendment was ment to enable the people to protect their rights, by force if voting failed, from outside governments,
and our government.
The US government infrigning on this is no different than taking away parts of the 1st. One of the organizations that the 2nd was ment to protect us against is making laws to hinder it.
I don't give a damn if they let me own handguns to hunt deer, the 2nd ammendment isn't protecting my right to kill a deer with a .44 magnum. The 2nd ammendment protects me from Uncle Sam to own a mill spec M14 to defend my rights as part of the CT State Militia as my forefathers did. Just like the 1st protects me if I decide to speak out against the government.
This is why federal registration of gun owners gets me going. The very organization that the 2nd is ment to defend against wants a list of everyone with the ability to assert their rights. If individual states do it thats fine, but not the feds.