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I support Heller in part because I think individuals right to bear arms today has it's relevancy in personal self defense and not in any militia context.
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Isn't a militia, at it's most basic level, just a well armed citizenry taking responsibility for it's own personal defense?
Isn't that well armed citizenry necessary to avoid the need for a police state to guarantee security for the state?
Isn' t this exactly what the founders had in mind?
Doesn't liberty increase as a result if the law abiding among us taking some of the responsibility for our own security? Why should their means to accomplish that end be infringed, for example, by banning semi-auto rifles that take detachable magazines?
And doesn't the spirit of the militia survive as a means for check and balance?