• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    4 hours ago

    The founding fathers weren’t visionaries, they were just people who lived in a particular time period and wrote laws appropriate to that time period. I don’t think they would necessarily be all that upset if someone was to travel back in time and tell them that people 200 years later wanted to change the rules because they no longer worked. So whatever they motivations may have been at the time are irrelevant.

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      3 hours ago

      I mean they literally said they expected the constitution to be rewritten ever couple decades. They absolutely were visionaries and envisioned exactly the type of changes modern-day conservatives abhor.

    • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com
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      They weren’t idiots either. They weren’t stupid enough to think technology was static and would never improve, firearms technology was literally improving during their lifetime. They wrote the constitution the way they did deliberately. The constitution was meant to be a living document, true, but the only reason to change that amendment is, simply put, fascism.

      • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
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        3 hours ago

        The reason is people dying because in america if someone gets upset they have a gun within arms reach. How many shooting deaths every year do you need to see before you would consider it a problem? Because apparently 14,000 gun deaths in a year is not even close to a problem for you.