It's Draft Time: Impeachment Edition

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(02-19-2018, 05:24 PM)hollodero Wrote: Oh Jeez yeah, that right shall not be infringed, all hell would break loose if you could not form a well-regulated militia with semi-automatics and bumping stocks.

Then again, as an originalist I suppose this right only refers to arms available in 1788. So machetes, breechloader rifles, double-barreled revolvers and such. I'd sell everyone who wants it a breechloader. If people want something better, they need to be trained by serving in the US army first, at least for a month or two on the home front.

Private ships back then had cannons (or at least carronades), and hundreds of pounds of gunpowder. Just sayin'... The gap between what the military used and what private citizens own is actually much larger than it was back then. Back then private citizens owned the same rifles the military used and could purchase the same ship artillery the navy used. Now people own downgraded, modified, civilian-versions of military rifles and no naval cannons.

That's of course all based off the wrong idea that the 2nd amendment states that if there's advancements in arms from when it was written, that it wouldn't be allowed.