Reply #61: I wonder how the NRA views today's SCOTUS ruling which bars [View All]

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anyone from suing the gov't for warrantless spying? Bet you don't hear a peep out of them. And by the way, I am a gun owner and hunter. But the 2A was never enacted to save us from our own government, it was simply a compromise at the time in order to avoid a standing army. A standing army was considered a grave threat because a President may want to use it for empirical or purely political aims(sound familiar?). The 2A was put in place so "well regulated militias" could be called upon in the event of an invading foreign army.