As a gun owner I have to facepalm every time I look at gun control discussions. The second amendment is about maintaining state militias because the nation was founded on the idea that there would be no standing army, and the state militias would be conscripted as the national army if needed. The idea that the second amendment is about unlimited private gun ownership is a recent idea. While guns in the United States have never been particularly uncommon, the meme of the second amendment saying anyone should be able to own as many guns of as many types as they want is wrong.

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