• eskimofry@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The question of whether we need to be armed to be capable of defending ourselves against tyrannical governments coming for our lives should have come after the question of whether we are capable of defending ourselves against ourselves.

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      4 months ago

      The question of whether we need to be armed to be capable of defending ourselves against tyrannical governments coming for our lives

      Also that wasn’t what the second amendment was about. It was about not wanting a standing army because it gave the federal government too much power, and James Madison believed state militias would be sufficient to defend the nation.

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        4 months ago

        And that’s why, to this day, Congress has to pass the NDAA every year. It’s not just the military budget, it’s also the law making the military exist. We don’t technically have a standing army.