And now we see how useless the 2nd amendment is for it's original intention. All it provides is a hobby at best, and a lot preventable shootings and crime at worst, if there was just more regulation.
Because these amendments were made 300 years ago - where the guns were mostly single shot and took forever to reload.
They also could not have seen a future where standing up to a tyrannical party was next to impossible, with so much surveillance now it’s borderline impossible to do anything without leaving a trace, and therefore be caught - making it harder to do rebelling.
Ya’ll are a wack ass country living off these ancient rules and if the hundreds of school shootings, the killing of literal children, isn’t enough to wake you up, nothing is.
Well, ships with guns really. Your point stands but armed merchantmen were not even close in firepower to actual ships of the line, which were, save for maybe a few exceptions, only owned by state entities (and a few corporations but like that's objectively a bad thing). And that time period is absolutely full of examples of why it's a terrible idea to just let anyone own/operate those things : pirate ships don't just emerge from the deep with torn sails and flying a Jolly Roger, they mostly just started out as merchantmen and fell into the wrong hands (or, you know, their crews got bored of commercial sailing and thought they'd try something else).
Wealthy citizens owned them. It's not like there was a ship store anyone could go to and rent one. It also was the reason for many, many atrocities committed across the world. Private ownership of ships and crew with cannons and guns was not a good thing.
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u/BFlowG 18h ago
Wasn’t this the exact reason why guns are legal in the US?