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Originally Posted by dobbles
I'm one of those people that doesn't think a 230 year old document is infallible and should be taken as gospel. It was written in the context of its time and has been twisted in perverse ways to apply its words to modern society. If we are unwilling to modify the document and our laws then they will inevitably fail.
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Not to mention the fact that the current interpretation of the 2A is only about 40 years old itself, and the Supreme Court support for the current interpretation only goes back to the 1990s.
The current interpretation is also a product of its time: where the NRA spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting the 'cause'.
Times change, which is why people should never back down in the face of 2A absolutists, like the pair in this very thread.