Where_r_my_Keys
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How so?
And please... be as specific as your intellectual limitations allow?
It was written at a time when the US was a fledgling state and didn't have a proper standing army and European powers had designs on its territories and political make up. It made sense to make sure people were armed and a militia could be formed ASAP. Fast forward 250-odd years and you not only have a standing army, you have a navy and airforce, too. You have professional soldiers and police forces which fill the vacuum of a militia.
It made sense, because such is a fundamental tenet of the laws of nature wherein God endows humanity with our rights. The gift induces the responsibility to defend one's means to exercise those rights, as the rights rest upon no less an authority then the Creator itself, thus no man or collective of men, who each posses precisely the same rights as everyone else, thus are not entitled to infringe upon the means of anyone else to exercise their rights.
That responsibility cannot be sustained where one group of men possess greater individual power, through technological means, over another. Thus.. such provides that it is the RESPONSIBILITY for the viable individual to possess not just a firearm, but state of the art firearms, sufficient to defend one's means to exercise one's rights, without regard to how big they may be or how many of them thy may brig with them... .
Such as NOTHING to do with maintaining a free state, it is exclusively the means by which the state remains free, through such being populated by free men; OKA: Bearing and effectively using firearms in defense of one's means to exercise one's rights, is essential... TO THE STATE OF FREEDOM!
This is a law of nature... it is not subject to erosion over time or being rendered passé through the whimsy of pop culture.