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Originally Posted by TGRR
Define "wrong hands"?
I mean, I pretty much hate everyone I know, and I have managed not to kill any of my neighbors so far, right?
The way the amendment is worded, unless you have had your rights stripped by a felony conviction by a jury of your peers, you should be able to walk down the street with a flamethrower, if that's what you want to do.
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Mentally ill people who go on shooting sprees. Kids who go on shooting sprees. In some of those instances, the people involved legally purchased weapons, even though they should not have been able to.
*edit to add* When the 2nd ammendment was written, we didn't have the same kind of weapons we have now.