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The right to buy any of the weapons existed before the constitution was created. WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION was that pre-existing right modified so as to allow the Federal government the power to regulate them?
What possible reason should a civilian police officer have an assault rifle? FOR THE EXACT SAME REASON THAT I WOULD. for self defense.
Alright. Let's get it straight...
Before the Constitution, men of the colonies owned muskets. Every man knew there were but two reasons to own that weapon:
1) to hunt.
2) to defend his land, property and family from thieves or wild animals.
Weaponry changed significantly during the Civil War era with the advent of such weapons as the Gatilin Gun. Who owned them? The U.S. Calvery.
The western frontier opened the door to men owning weapons of various sorts, i.e., pistols, revolvers, riffles, etc. From that time through modern day warfare, weapons have become more deadly by every means imaginable, i.e., the caliber of bullets and the size of shells for the various types of hand guns and riffles that can even fire several deadly rounds per second. Now, I ask you when did the proliforation of such weapons become "a right to own" as opposed to "a menace to good social order"?
You asked the question, for "what possible reason should a civilian police officer have an assault rifle?". A ridiculous question, but the answer is "as soon as the thugs on the streets became armed with far more deadlier weapons than the civilian police force!" Once that level of social choas was thrust onto the common man, he then wanted to be as equally armed as the threat from the streets using the 2nd Amendment as his banner to own such weapons.
The breathe of the 2nd Amendment has gotten out of control. Once we went from owning a single, simple hand gun or riffle to all but demanding that it was our right to own just about any weapon we wanted, I believe this nation breeched the limits of the 2nd Amendment as setforth by the Founding Fathers and went from our "right to bear arms" to defend ourselves from government invasion and/or to put food on the table to "I'm gonna get a gun because I can. And while I'm at it, I want that AK-47, too."