FOS » 16 Jun 2022, 11:42 am » wrote: ↑
Huey » 16 Jun 2022, 11:37 am » wrote: ↑
I want to understand your position. The OP is insinuating since the only firearm they were aware of was a musket/flintlock type the framers could not fathom any other type of weapon. We are not talking mechanized warfare. We are talking about firearms. I don;t give a rat's *** about what you are ranting about.
Do you agree?
If so, let's go. This is gonna be fun!
If we were going to extract the meat of what the OP means it would go like this:
during the era of the founding fathers, we highest tech weapon used by the military was basically the musket. Perhaps the cannon...which I am sure you know adam smith argued in favor of legal civilian use (btw it is no longer legal for you to own a cannon)
in the modern era, military tech is not available to the public. so the whole point of the 2nd amendment is already obsolete.
Are you gonna give an f22 to every citizen? or are you going to admit the world has changed?
maybe you should catch up to the modern world.
Almost forgot
One of the men to credit for why repeating arms became much less expensive during the 19th century is James Madison, author of the Second Amendment. During Madison’s presidency (1809-17), Secretary of War James Monroe (who would succeed Madison as president), successfully promoted legislation to foster the development of firearms technology. In particular, the federal armories at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, Va., were ordered to invent the means of producing firearms with interchangeable parts.
https://fee.org/articles/firearms-techn ... amendment/
The argument that muskets were the only weapons available and that rifles that could fire multiple times were unheard of pure and utter ****.
Do you think the man credited with being the author of the 2nd Amendment knew what the **** he meant?