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>The second amendment literally defines a free state by its capacity for armed revolt

Aren't you confusing the text[1] with what one person, namely Thomas Jefferson, said about it?

[1] "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."



>Aren't you confusing the text[1] with what one person, namely Thomas Jefferson, said about it?

If I am, then so are the Supreme Court, the NRA, militia groups, the Republican Party and much of the country.

At some point one has to admit that the purpose of a system is what it does and the American system does violence very well.




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