(Consider that you can also read the Second Amendment as enshrining the existence of armed police)
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Well, these attitudes are consistent
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Why is that bizarre?
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I mean, "the police" are not the only construction of community security and service we can imagine. Many American counties don't do it that way. And quite frankly, cops should and do scare people.
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Blame the founders for that.
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They changed other bits of the Constitution and besides, in the absence of the right to form a militia it ought to be defunct anyway.
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I feel like this is in part because even if you assume the latter is an admirable goal, any local or state progress would be nullified by 2A lawsuits. You could feasibly make a *lot* of ground at the state and local level in limiting police presence and aggression
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Not that weird when one of these things is (unfortunately) enshrined in the constitution and one isn't.
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Those seem compatible.
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I always wonder how fast the 2A would be amended If the NRA were to suddenly lose influence
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