Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
Well, I guess the right to free speech doesn't apply to radios, the internet, TV, etc. After all, the Founders couldn't have predicted those things and how they would affect communications.
No they certainly couldnt. And at the same time TV and radio are totally regulated. I cant just start broadcasting over any particular frequency, Ill get arrested, its piracy. I cant swear on daytime TV. Is that censorship by the government? There are degrees and limits to everything. A call for absolutes, is usually extremely dangerous.

The 2nd was made to arm people against a tyrannical government, and as the firepower of the government increases, so too must the people's. The reality of having to fight for your freedom has not changed.
So, no one has answered my question yet. Your government has nuclear ICBMs. Should you be allowed have one, just in case off your government getting out of line? Or a less extreme example, grenades, mortars and tanks?

I wonder if the Irish in the early 1900s had such bemusement about a 'hangup' over guns.
Actually, just finnished disarming one of what I suppose you would call a malitia a few days ago. They go by the name of the IRA. Actually, turns out them having all that firepower without any accountability or representation or authority (other than their own murderous convictions & and a belief they were being oppressed) was pretty disasterous... got a little messy in the end, lots of civilian casualties.