The point of the 2nd amendment cannot mean anything other than allowing citizens weaponry required to defeat a conventional army. Its objective is not to allow personal defense nor sports or hunting, that is a side-effect.
I find arguments like "weapon X is too much", because they're best at killing humans, very silly - because that is the very point of the second amendment.
The problem with the second amendment is that the US citizens don't take it seriously. CR and his gun buddies chance of standing up to the US Army is far lower than a snowballs chance of survival in Hell. Because of this, the 2nd amendment is today the most irrelevant paragraph in the entire US legal system.
Nothing whatsoever would change in the government-citizen relationship should it disappear. A tyrannical US President h nothing to fear whatsoever from a gun-toting population, and ironically it is because of the support the gun-toting part of the electorates has for an ever-increasing defense budget.
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