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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Individual Americans have had a legally recognized constitutional right as individuals to have guns since 2008. Before that they had to be part of a well regulated militia to exercise such a right. When the SCOTUS by a vote of 5-4 said individuals have that right, reversing multi generational precedent somehow folks thought they always had that right, which they did not.
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It's not clear to me how the literal-meaning-of-the-constitution-at-the-time-it-was-written Supreme Court could extend the 2nd amendment to basic self-defence. I mean it literally starts with a preamble explaining exactly why it is required, i.e. for well-regulated militia.