Seems it's not only Valve that can only count to 2... most people who want to tell me about the constitution seem to have that same problem.
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Replying to @chetfaliszek
At least Valve can put out a whole 2nd game - these clowns can only read the part that doesn’t mention a well-regulated militia… and for some reason are cool with infringing on the right to own a nuke or chem/bio weapons.
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Replying to @DanStapleton @chetfaliszek
But that is also a "clown" reading. A) It was well understood that's not what the amendment meant (arms meant the weapon the average soldier carried in war), B) It only applied to the Federal government. States were allowed to regulate anything. It was #14 that changed that.
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I would like to respond to point B. Why would the federal government need to write down an amendment giving themselves the right to own guns?
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It is the opposite of that. The colonies were worried that a newly formed Federal government would become tyrannical. The Bill of Rights was drafted as a response to these concerns. Amendment 2 was designed to ensure that the colonies (now "States") would retain arms rights.
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The Bill of Rights is precisely this throughout, actually: it is just a list of things that the Federal government was NOT allowed to do. And originally, that intrinsically meant it was things States WERE allowed to do. That part got lost in (bad?) 14th Amendment jurisprudence.
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But originally, it would have been your _state_ constitution that would have limited state gun laws. If your _state's_ constitution had strong prohibitions on gun laws, then it would be constrained; if it didn't, it wouldn't be.
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Personally, I think the original (pre-incorporation-doctrine) system was much better. The new system basically doesn't work, and we are constantly running into severe issues with it, which continue to get worse over time as geographic differences play themselves out.
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