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rollingstoner215 t1_jd0xykl wrote

Not exactly… the founders feared civilian uprisings similar to Shay’s Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion, and knew they might need a way to marshal armed forces quickly. At the time standing armies were seen as somewhat tyrannical, and the founders did not envision a strong federal government with access to soldiers like that. Militias were a solution, and so that each militiaman could bring his own weapons to battle, the Second Amendment was written into the Bill of Rights.

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deviant-joy t1_jd0w5vj wrote

Reply to comment by Thot_P0cket in Calm the Fuck down PPD!! by jk137jk

I had a police van blare its siren, horn, and lights on its way down the crowded off-ramp of the 95, just to go totally silent once it had cut in front of all the traffic and reserved itself a nice spot two cars back from the next traffic light. Truly heroic.

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skip_tracer t1_jd0venb wrote

Reply to comment by gigibuffoon in Calm the Fuck down PPD!! by jk137jk

was this at Aramingo and Lehigh last night? Because I was sitting at that red light right next to a cop sitting in that little lot on the northeast corner. I couldn't believe it, I gasped the dude could have taken out multiple cars.

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