The Second Amendment discussion here can be taken as a sample for all similar things in state constitutions. People need to open their minds to the change in environment and how those things had different risk to security balance in those old times. People need to follow intelligently not blindly. Intelligent following concentrate on the purpose and not necessarily the means like someone driving his car into a river trying to follow a boat to the same destination.
Even arms for self-defense as a purpose, in addition to changes affecting it directly between then and now, it might have acquired significance as a building block to the capability of a group to defend itself using conventional arms back then much far from what military machinery would allow in our current time. It could be, even with the risk-benefit balance of back then, less about acquiring the armed capability of a self defense right regardless of how applicable that right is, than it seems.
This is not against people following their own laws but it is against people doing that like a person in a hypnotic state unable to perceive his surroundings.
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