A Gentleman's Guide to Open Carry

[SwordsMaster]

Meh, I find the entire positioning of the 2nd Amendment really weird and ahistorical.

Did the founders envision a standing army? Nope. They thought that was a thing to avoid.

Did the founders envision paramilitary police? Nope, unimaginable to them.

Did they want everything organized around citizen militias? Yep. They figured that was the way to avoid the self-evident evil of a standing army.

Our situation is so wildly out of whack with what they intendend, and by extension, what they meant when they wrote the short, simple sentence that is the Second Amendment.

All of this talk about YOU HAVE TO GO AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION is bullhockey. The everybody-gets-a-gun with minimal regulation thing? That is a recent invention. Has absolutely nothing to do with the Second Amendment, unless you choose to read it in a brain-bendingly selective manner.

Reprint:

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.

Exactly, what the constitution enshrines is, in effect, something like Finland or Switzerland. Nothing to do with carrying guns shopping with you.