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quantified • yesterday at 7:17 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

How does the 2nd amendment protect you? Are you allowed automatic weapons, grenades? You're not even allowed swords. And if you call for violence, which is what the 2nd amendment might enable, you won't find protection via the 1st amendment.

See citizens and ICE.


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MaxHoppersGhost • yesterday at 9:19 PM

Where did you get your info from? Sword ownership is legal everywhere as far as I know and you can own automatic weapons and even grenades.

Stop making stuff up.

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chaostheory • today at 1:46 AM

The 2nd amendment was designed to protect the 1st amendment. As for how, it was supposed to give citizens teeth against their government if it ever turned tyrannical one day. Armed citizens were one of the factors that made the American Revolution successful, which probably why so many Americans hold onto the idea.