Something to ponder
Does the Second Amendment allow for the protection of the people only from the the tyranny of government, or does it protect the people from the tyranny of corporations that undercut that government
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I think the key in your first couple of paragraphs regarding the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is that the admendment doesn't specify an aggressor. It's an enshrinement, in writing, of the natural right of a human being to have the means to defend themselves, their liberty, and their community. The tyrant the Founding Fathers may have had in mind was a tyrannical government like the one from which they'd just escaped, but I don't figure they were that short-sighted to so narrowly define the threat individual liberty. It's not impossible for a corporation, or any group of people, to become a defacto government (the corporation-as-government trope is common in science fiction for a reason), since government at its essence is a group of people coming together to decide the ground rules for living within their community.
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