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The 2nd Amendment was designed to prevent need for a nat'l standing army which, in Europe, was a pretty new development—often used to conquer a nation's own people

To prevent this, 2A designated that power to militias formed by individual citizens. This is what it was made for
Attempting to strip the citizens of the ability to bear individual arms—rendering them incapable of assembling into a militia capable of defending the broader rights of the citizens against government conquest—is literally what the militia was empowered to stop
I'm not a big fan of democracy, but the historic, core roots of democracy have always relied on its individual citizens being

a) very well armed, and

b) capable of wielding those arms in defense of their nation when it came under threat

"Democracy" doesn't exist without this
This is exactly why "@socialistdogmom" is aghast at the idea of democracy's citizens being functionally empowered to uphold democracy

She doesn't believe in it either. She hates it. But she knows exactly how to use its own slogans to dismantle it, and usher in her vision instead
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