Thread:Comments:U.S. federal judge upholds Oregon Ballot Measure 114 gun permit requirement, magazine regulations/Unconstitutional/reply (2)

Guns have certainly improved over the last two hundred years or so, but what's your point? In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) it was decided that 2A applies to individual ownership, which is really the only decision they could have made. First it makes sense given the way 2A is worded, secondly I don't imagine the powers that be would want people forming militias in the first place, which is exactly what most gun owners would do if there were no alternative. Anyway, the point is that everyone is responsible for protecting their nation. Standing armies arguably have a far worse track record of needless violence, and concentrating the means of applying force i.e. guns into a single entity with a chain of command that depends mostly on a few people at the top is hardly egalitarian any way you look at it.