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How does the 2nd amendment protect you? Are you allowed automatic weapons, grenades? You're not even allowed swords. And if you call for violence, which is what the 2nd amendment might enable, you won't find protection via the 1st amendment.

See citizens and ICE.

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Where did you get your info from? Sword ownership is legal everywhere as far as I know and you can own automatic weapons and even grenades.

Stop making stuff up.

Many jurisdictions have laws against carrying blades longer than X (it varies) and any reasonable definition of a sword would fall under that category.

In the US at least automatic weapons are nominally legal at the federal level after hefty tax stamps and background checks but states / local jurisdictions can and do regulate more / outright ban them.

That's just moving the goalposts. Nothing in there says it's illegal to own any of those things. You just might not be able to carry a sword (there are carve outs for reenactments in most places btw) and you might have to move or pay more for automatic weapons.

They're still not illegal, as OP said.

Carrying arms is another word for bearing then. According to the constitution, this right shall not be infringed. If it's illegal to carry an arm then the constitution is being infringed.

The 2nd amendment was designed to protect the 1st amendment. As for how, it was supposed to give citizens teeth against their government if it ever turned tyrannical one day. Armed citizens were one of the factors that made the American Revolution successful, which probably why so many Americans hold onto the idea.

Good luck resisting a tyrannical government that has jets, tanks, bio weapons and nukes

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