Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
My point is you can't be a literalist about one thing, and a "living constitutionalist" about another in the very same sentence. There are two consistent positions:

1: Everybody gets those muskets., or
2: Since muskets are no longer carried by infantrymen and infantrymen are all in the Armed Forces of the US, the concept of "militia" has to be updated to the actual military or National Guard. States can make their own laws about self defense and hunting weapons, but the 2nd Amendment only applies to actual soldiers.
I was thinking about this.

What if only military personnel could "bear arms," and had to relinquish them when they leave the service? As far a LEOs, a lot more social work training would be in order for them.

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It's not like they're gonna run in and kill the bad guy anyway...unless he's black. ¯\_(?)_/¯

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