HarrySchell
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The citizens in Egypt are using "arms" as they have them for self-defense. This is the lesson, that citizens should have access to arms for self-defense. Firearms are the most effective means currently to enable the individual right of self-defense, but other stuff works.
To have to resort to sticks and knives means generally that the physically strong can defend themselve while the physically weak are more at risk. Firearms address this, so that a 75-year old man can persuade a group of younger men to leave him alone.
The old and weak have no less of a right to self-defense than anyone, and depriving them of the means, while empowering the strong, is what the Founders thought of as part of the rationale for 2A. The use of the word "arms" is not accidental, becasue the right is an eternal one.
2A is about a right and concept more than about whether you have a musket or 1911. It happens now that a 1911 may be more effective, but when the 1911 is obsoleted, if ever, whatever replaces it will be an "arm" as contemplated under 2A.
To have to resort to sticks and knives means generally that the physically strong can defend themselve while the physically weak are more at risk. Firearms address this, so that a 75-year old man can persuade a group of younger men to leave him alone.
The old and weak have no less of a right to self-defense than anyone, and depriving them of the means, while empowering the strong, is what the Founders thought of as part of the rationale for 2A. The use of the word "arms" is not accidental, becasue the right is an eternal one.
2A is about a right and concept more than about whether you have a musket or 1911. It happens now that a 1911 may be more effective, but when the 1911 is obsoleted, if ever, whatever replaces it will be an "arm" as contemplated under 2A.