re: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

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You're right. Citizens should have much better weapons.

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They've been conditioned to not take that next step

I don't see what the fuss is all about with automatic weapons

They're so against larger magazine capacity, you'd think the wasting of ammunition would be a welcome idea to them.

Those examples shouldn't matter when talking about an originalist, literal reading of the Second Amendment.

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Those examples shouldn't matter when talking about an originalist, literal reading of the Second Amendment

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Neither would your original question.

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The reasoning that the citizenry should have access to the same type of weapons as the government transcends a certain time period

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I agree. Wasn't your question, though, something along the lines of what good is the 2A if the gov't has tanks?

That question was to illustrate the Second Amendment is already divorced from what the Founders intended.

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His point is that it doesn't matter the firepower when you are up against a determined group. His statement proved your point to be irrelevant.

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Does that mean we should change what the Founders intended when creating the Second Amendment?

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That question was to illustrate the Second Amendment is already divorced from what the Founders intended.

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That isn't license to trample more over the original intent. If anything... It's an argument against any more restrictions.

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Does that mean we should change what the Founders intended when creating the Second Amendment?

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John Adams:

"Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense."

Thomas Jefferson:

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

It sounds like one of the key reasons was tyranny in government.

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Which I guess you choose ignore.

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Where did I choose to ignore that? That's central to my whole point.

I see no writings from the Founding Fathers making a distinction between the weapons the government can/should have the the arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment.