"The situation now is totally different. The frontier has vanished. we have a highly technological, crowded, stressed-out, largely urban society of people who are not familiar with responsible handling of guns and who have no practical reason whatsoever to be using a gun as a way of acquiring food and protecting themselves in case of an Indian attack out of the forest! ;-)

So the Constitution as it exists has become archaic in regards to that section.

Nevertheless, it remains law in the USA, and that law is no doubt quite annoying to people in power now who would prefer not to have a public that can shoot back at the authorities if they see a pressing reason to. ;-)"


It seems to me that the same arguement could be made about the other anmendments: Freedom of religion as regards to fundamentalists, freedom to assemble of whatever side ( conservative/liberal) extremists that one objects to, etc. If times having changed make the RIGHT invalid, than which ones can be still in effect?




"Nevertheless, it remains law in the USA, and that law is no doubt quite annoying to people in power "