[quote=squat300]i was having a conversation witha live human who loves guns andwho mentioendwe need them to protect against oppressive govt Imetioned that yes, i too favored that,and that we also need to arm ourselves with bombs and other more aggressive weapons. he looked at me like I was nuts.
i dontsee why guns are good for figthing the govt is logical but keeping plenty of homemade explosives are bad is nutty
seems like if you like the former you’d love the latter.
personally i think they’re both mad as a hatter.[/quote]
Most 2nd amendment rulings have concluded that the intent is that a person be able to have the same sort of weapon carried by the police *and* that the weapon is operated by a single person *and* is used to defend themselves and their property. So that means no tanks or airplanes or h-bombs which will probably disappoint many.
Imagine if the Jews in Germany had been armed to match the police who came to round them up. The police would have quickly learned to ignore these kind of illegal orders and might have even turned on the nazis. Imagine if West Africans had had the same muskets as the slavers, the slave trade would have been impossible. This I believe is the intent of the 2nd amendment.
As an aside, didn’t some of the guys who wrote the bill of rights have slaves? They probably justified themselves by claiming that slaves weren’t human or some other such nonsense. People were assholes back then just like now.
