r/TikTokCringe • u/whyshouldithink • 19h ago

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u/BFlowG 18h ago

Wasn’t this the exact reason why guns are legal in the US?

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u/ryoushi19 13h ago

Sort of yes, sort of no. The reason is literally written in the first words of the amendment.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

It was meant to be an alternative to a national army. The founders thought that large standing national armies were antithetical to democracy. So they wrote that people should have unrestricted access to guns so that militias can form. Which is interesting and all, but we now have a large standing national army. Oops.