Is the punctuation in the original 2nd amendment exactly as it was originally written? I read

[TimeSnowDemos]

7. The 2nd Amendment only makes sense in one way

A few bits of baseline info

- guns as tools were ubiquitous at the time it was written, there was no notion that they would be banned, as they were necessary for a variety of reasons

- the Founding Fathers were obsessed with the idea that a coup could destroy their experiment. The main source of that fear was the idea of the military overthrowing the government, as had happened in other places

Now, in that context the 2nd Amendment is pretty clearly not about self-defense (that notion is relatively modern) but about creating state level militias that would not have the power to overthrow the government.

This is also why the US was deliberately founded w/o a standing army, to prevent coups.

Once the US got a standing army, the 2nd Amendment should've been scrapped, as the point of militias was to prevent that.

Decades of court decisions backed this up, but after two generations of propaganda and political court nominations, the USSC decided to pretend history didn't matter and redefined the 2nd Amendment to please gun manufacturers.

It's a meaningless relic at this point and should be trashed.