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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I have a hard time understanding the "defend themselves from tyranny" argument given that the US military has stealth planes, military choppers, grenade launchers, tanks.... any militia that thinks they can storm the White House to "take back the country" would be wiped off earth before they could fire a second round.
If the goal was give the people the ability to violently overthrow the government (which indeed it was at the time of the writing of the constitution) then you would have to give the people the right to own grenade launchers. In which case, 17 people would be a very, very low casualty total for crackpots.
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Well actually, the 2nd amendment was not necessarily to allow citizens to take over Washington, but for the states to keep citizen militias to defend against federal tyranny.
Besides, the Posse Comitatus Act was written to restrict the military from acting as a police force within the country.
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