Reply #8: Thinking so small

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To say the 2nd is to own something misses the point.

It would be analogous to saying "Whats the big deal about a piece of paper that says marriage on it".

As you expressed it isn't the paper it is the idea.
The idea that all people are equal under the law.

It isn't the firearm it is the idea.
The idea that one has an absolute right to bear arms in defense of self, family, home and state.

The BofR was never about concrete items. Time and technology changes all things. Internet didn't exist at time of founding but the 1st applies to it. The concept, the idea is that people have a right to free expression of ideas (even unpopular ones). The method will change with time but the concept doesn't.

Likewise the founders didn't need to worry about DNA evidence but the idea that you can not be subject to unreasonable search and seizure is an idea. I believe if founders were alive today they would believe that DNA is a form of search & seizure just as the courts have. The idea is what matters.

To say it is about owning something misses the mark on so many levels.