The 2nd Amendment is a hedge against a tyrannical government.
"Law enforcement" includes local police, local sheriff, state troopers, federal marshals, fbi, etc.
Has nothing to do with the military, who has nuclear weapons and fast attack subs. Your local law enforcement doesn't have either of those.
Whatever law enforcement has, the citizens must be able to own.
You are incorrect. The citizens of this country created a government, and cannot give powers to the government that they do not possess them selves. The Second amendment was put in place specifically so that if the government that had just been created with the constitution somehow became tyrannical, despite the safeguards in that document, that the people would have in their hands the means with which to overthrow it in the same manner as the drafters and ratifiers of the Second Amendment had just overthrown the English government.
Additionally, if you look at article 1 section 8, among the powers given to the Congress is to issue Letters if Marque and Reprisal. This is congressional authorization to civilians vto attack enemy shipping and other forces during wartime when the (purposely small) standing army and navy didn’t have sufficient forces on hand to do the job. How, pray tell, does one take on enemy forces without having equivalent weaponry? Note that the Continental Congress issued many Letters, as did Congress during the War of 1812 and afterwards, so the power is not unused. Just as John Hancock has cannon-armed ships he used to fight the British Navy, so today should individuals have the ability to have similar modern weapons.
“If law enforcement is “allowed” to have an AR-15 (for example), then citizens must be allowed to own an AR-15.
The 2nd Amendment is a hedge against a tyrannical government.
“Law enforcement” includes local police, local sheriff, state troopers, federal marshals, fbi, etc.
Has nothing to do with the military, who has nuclear weapons and fast attack subs. Your local law enforcement doesn’t have either of those.
Whatever law enforcement has, the citizens must be able to own.”
It wasn’t town constables that we fought in the Revolutionary War. In the War for Independence, the average citizen could be as well armed as the average British Redcoat was.