Abatis
Platinum Member
The thing is, I was acquainted first with right-wing ideology growing up.
It just became burned into my mind that the 2nd Amendment means you can arm yourself up to the tits with pretty much anything you want.
But then I grew up and actually read the Constitution and studied it, and I learned that it's the only Amendment in the Constitution to use the words "well regulated", and the guns the framers of the Constitution were talking about were muskets. They could not have possibly been talking about semi-automatic weapons that can kill a whole classroom of kids in under 5 minutes.
I've learned that, like the bible, many right-wingers profess to know the truth about everything, but really they're just talking out of their asses.
The real problem is the left-wing, 20th century communitarian ideology you adopted and then applied to the US Constitution reading it as if the right to arms is granted or given to the people because of course, it only exists because the 2nd Amendment created it . . . You are completely ignorant of the fundamental principles of conferred powers and retained rights and will never understand how those principles relegate your ridiculous beliefs to flat-earth status piped through Marx's ass.