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If the 2nd amendment were a great idea, they'd have written it intelligibly.

Some of us parse the rationale such that it seems obsolete: we no longer rely on a militia to defend the nation, we have a professional military for it.

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State

Some of us, obviously, don't.




The authors probably thought it was intelligible, the intent was obvious and didn't need to be elaborated on.

And now we're still arguing about the meaning of that damned comma...




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