re: The four arguments against military style full semi automatic assault rifles

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WildTchoupitoulas

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Ftr, I don’t think you’re being idiotic, and your hypothetical is interesting and not totally invalid. I don’t believe the authors of the Consitition intended that the government should be in control of the civilians arms, but I understand what you’re saying.

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No, but the WOD was

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You’re saying it was “right”, as opposed to left, but truthfully left and right both want government control.
There just really isn’t any “far right” with any kind of power in the US, and I don’t know that there ever was.
The WOD has been ineffective, but to say it’s a “rightist” thing only makes sense in regards to the American “right”, which is not hard right in any meaningful sense.

Also,Anti-Communists weren’t Fascists (hard right), they were just pro-American.

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Well, we've largely lost our 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th Amendment rights, so how is the 2nd protecting them again?

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Most people have not felt their rights to be lost, so you wouldn’t expect whatever’s happened to have triggered a violent response by the citizenry.