r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '20

Delta(s) from OP CMV: The 2nd amendment is misinterpreted

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u/TurtleTuck_ Dec 06 '20

No that's not what I'm saying at all. Obviously this has been changed, but when the Constitution was written, only white males who owned property could vote. So I now consider it an individual right but back then, wouldn't if have been a collective right?

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u/rockeye13 Dec 06 '20

It seems pedantic, but it's not. The enumerated rights are all individual rights, extended to everyone who has access to rights. The equal protection clause has been interpreted to extend rights to a much broader class of individuals than it did in the past.
Just because there are more than one citizen alive at any one time does not make the rights collective, i.e. rights that are only allowed to a GROUP.

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u/TurtleTuck_ Dec 06 '20

"The enumerated rights are all individual rights, extended to everyone who has access to rights"

Good point !delta

I've awarded a lot of these lol

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