[robertpaulsen]

"it's a state power to arm or disarm citizens at will. Why would you want that?"

That's the same question the Founders asked themselves. So they wrote the second aamendment to prevent the federal government from infringing the ability of a state to arm themselves and form a Militia.

[tacticalogic]

That's the same question the Founders asked themselves. So they wrote the second aamendment to prevent the federal government from infringing the ability of a state to arm themselves and form a Militia.

And we're supposed to believe they wrote it in such a way as to produce exactly what they were trying to prevent.

[tacticalogic]

So they wrote the second aamendment to prevent the federal government from infringing the ability of a state to arm themselves and form a Militia.

By your account they don't have any right to arm themselves until they've formed a well regulated militia. You can't have a well-regulated militia without arms, so we're pretty well screwed. Nice work.