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Read the book Origins of the Bill of Rights, chapter 6, by Leonard W. Levy (Yale University Press copyright 1999). In that chapter Professor Levy explains how the II Amendment is an individual right. The book was written before Justice Scalia was on the Supreme Court and it clarifies the real originalist meaning of the II Amendment.
While some guy named Leonard wrote a book, Scalia as one of the nine SCOTUS judges affects every American's life.
In this case, Scalia gave permission for individuals to own guns, and the NRA promoted ownership of killing machines that can cause mass inflection of damage in the shortest amount of time.
But we pretty much already had permission as individuals to own guns long before that. But a large portion of us hadn't yet been indoctrinated in reality tee vee to the point where we can't distinguish between it and reality.
What I'm getting at is, some of this is environmental and you and I are not the first to say "There goes the neighborhood." A lot of folks around the world are saying it.
They didn't used to as much. Of course they thought our 2A was unusual but it didn't crop up as much in everyday conversation. They don't have much choice but to do just that when they see the news every single day from America, another shooting, and nothing done about it.
We have been taught to interact with guns in a very different manner than in the past. Not just the shooters, all of us.
Even people who in the past had the same adamant anti-gun beliefs as now were different. I knew maybe two or even three people who were very anti-gun when I was a youngster. One of them was the old lady I took piano lessons from, and she was an old Southern lady! Truda E. D'Andelet was born and raised in Louisiana. She worked for "the telephone company" as a "0" Operator. And she sounded like one, unless she got upset!
But get this: she was a lesbian, and so were her two roommates! They lived together in the house across the street from me for most of my childhood.
They had one roomie named Mary Katherine who was very butch, and I am going to guess she was maybe 2A friendly, just a gut feeling. I am sure all three of them are in the ground now, they were old when I was a baby.
But "Miss Trudy" just hissed quiet disapproval the day she saw me playing rifles with my little buddy, clucking her tongue and whispering about lawdy lawdy. We were a couple of kids with toy guns and she just didn't like them but she never brought it up at my next piano lesson.
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