On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 3:01 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
* > It's much more sensible to define "arms" in terms of function than > mechanical design. After all "arms" meant swords and pikes and bows and > arrows too. * > The function of arms is to kill people, a sword can do that, so can a musket, and so can an H bomb. > *> Functionally, "arms" meant what a soldier carried...these days an > assault rifle. * > It doesn't say that anywhere in the constitution, and these days a soldier can have weapons other than assault rifles. A nuclear bomb had been developed in the 1950s that was small enough to be carried by one man, it was called the W54 warhead and weighed 56 pounds and had the explosive force of 1000 tons of TNT. It was supposed to be deployed as a sort of nuclear landmine. So does the second amendment allow Walmarts to sell nuclear bombs next to the shotguns in its stores? Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_demolition_munition> > > * >The purpose of the 2nd Amendment was as a substitute for a standing > army the government would be able to call up men with arms to form a > militia. Being very suspicious of centralized power, the founders wanted > to make sure the government could not forbid private arms.* > After considering the events of January 6 it seems to me that the founders would've been wiser to be suspicious of private armies. The militias were not defending the capital on that day they were attacking it, and were part of the mindless fascist mob that beat police with flag poles and defecated in the rotunda of that historic building as Senators and Representatives feared for their lives while they officially declared Joe Biden would be the next president. Fortunately the mob's coup d'état attempt failed, no thanks to the Second Amendment or to militias. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0JQP0bSCfyQBhm_gh1voYzpMB5WMiiyuMdwc%3DgLgsr5A%40mail.gmail.com.
