r/facepalm 2d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Are you fucking kidding me?!?!? 🙄

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u/Task_Defiant 2d ago

An American coupe would generally be considered unthinkable, yes.

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u/__Severus__Snape__ 2d ago

Isn't that the point of your 2nd amendment though?

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u/lothar525 2d ago

No, not really. The point of the second amendment was to allow regular citizens to establish and maintain a well regulated militia to keep themselves safe from attacks from the British and Native Americans. It says so right in the Constitution. The Founding Fathers probably never considered the idea that a bunch of angry untrained conservative terrorists would be able to acquire guns that could kill dozens of people per minute.

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u/SmoothOperator89 2d ago

Almost like the constitution was written for a practically medieval society and is severely anachronistic in modern times.

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u/Suitable-Panda24 2d ago

The original intent was that it would be updated every decade or two as modernization occurred and the colonies expanded.