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Define “the people”. For works of it’s time, it is broadly used to mean both individuals and an elected government.

You’re utilizing one definition of a term that never had concrete meaning, so your reasoning is both imprecise and potentially erroneous.



I think it is pretty clear.

It is hard to see why a state would feel the need to include the government's ability to own weapons at all, let alone in a document listing rights and protections for individual citizens. Furthermore, the statements already draw a distinction between the people and an army controlled by the government.


The document wasn’t for individuals. That’s quite the misunderstanding of basic history here.




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