Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns

• halfempty@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At first, militia were formed in response to war. There were no standing army until well after the US was formed. The closest we have to a well armed militia as envisioned by the second amendment are our state national guards. The second amendment was created before the concept of a US standing army.

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  • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funnily the Founding Fathers explicitly didn’t trust the concept of a standing national army because it might create an American army that was constantly engaged in foreign conflict as a means of justifying it’s continued existence ensuring an eternal cycle of needless warfare.

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