Toddler, 2, dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Walmart parking lot as his parents shopped for fireworks

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Toddler dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Georgia Walmart parking lot
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The question of whether we need to be armed to be capable of defending ourselves against tyrannical governments coming for our lives should have come after the question of whether we are capable of defending ourselves against ourselves.

The question of whether we need to be armed to be capable of defending ourselves against tyrannical governments coming for our lives

Also that wasn’t what the second amendment was about. It was about not wanting a standing army because it gave the federal government too much power, and James Madison believed state militias would be sufficient to defend the nation.

And that's why, to this day, Congress has to pass the NDAA every year. It's not just the military budget, it's also the law making the military exist. We don't technically have a standing army.