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Yeah, people actually doing what the second amendment was explicitly written to allow them to do looks like, uhhh.... January 6, 2021.
Well, yeah.
Just because they were idiots, with the goal of putting an even bigger idiot on a throne doesn't mean they didn't have a right to revolution.
Thing is, a failed revolution, insurrection, or coup has a different name: treason.
It's not a game. You either take action and succeed, or you're a criminal. Doesn't matter who's in charge, what the political landscape is, what the principles being fought for are. You fail, you're fucked.
We don't have to like the January 6th morons, or the core individuals that used the bigger crowd as cover for the actual attempted coup and killings. But the 2nd is, in part, about the populace having the means you overthrow, resist, or otherwise exert their ownership of their own nation. I'm glad they failed, but I don't object to them exerting a core human right.
But they also have to understand that they failed, and that (barring trump pulling some pardons out of his ass) they'll have to do the time if/when convicted.
Had they succeeded, they'd be heroes to their supporters, and the rest of us would have had to decide whether or not to take similar steps, whether or not to take up arms and retake the nation.
Not an American here so, asking for clarification, but isn't the 2nd Amendment purely and solely about the right to organize into militias and not about what such militias are for? So, it guarantees you can have your gun but not that you can just up and use it to upend Human Rights because "lol someone wrote it in 1776"?
The more-or-less stated goal of the second amendment is that the people have the tools needed to overthrow the government if they need to.
Is that part important, for the wording, or just vibes?