Bear Ribs
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Well, you need to understand that legal terms and common words people use every day might sound the same, but have a completely different meaning. This is especially true of the Constitution, due to lingual drift.The second ammendment needs to be abolished because the founding fathers never could have anticipated modern assault weapon ghost guns that can fire a 30 caliber magazine clip in half a second, this has tripled the casualty rate in conflicts and has made what some call a 'non stop warfare' effect. In addition too many guns nowadays have the shoulder things that go up, and that is terrifying.
Now that that the jokes are out of the way, how do you guys decipher "Shall not be infringed"?
Now the founding fathers were mostly from Great Brittain so they would use British meanings of words. A "Fringe" in British slang is a style of bangs. So we can deduce that the Founding Fathers felt that people who wore their hair with bangs should not be allowed to own firearms. This was only sensible, as the important ruling class all wore their hair in wigs without bangs. Don't believe me? Pull out a one-dollar bill and you'll clearly see George Washington has no bangs. A hundred? Ben Franklin has no bangs. A Twenty? Jackson has a single strand that might, conceivably, be considered to be bangs but it's a stretcher, and besides he was a slave owner so his opinion doesn't count anyway.
So a logical interpretation of the 2nd amendment is actually that working-class Americans were forbidden to own any weapons, while people in a position of political power or wealth should be permitted to have them. This is in accordance with US history.