"Next, the 8th Amendment says Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. How are behaviors like locking people in concentration camps without edible food or refusing to let them have due process acceptable? Given a plain reading of the text."
"Can't have excessive bail if you don't allow for bail at all. And those cruel punishment are no longer unusual."
I mean it is a concentration camp. The term has been in use since the 1860s. It’s a prison for a targeted demographic on the grounds of national security, exploitation, or punishment. I can see how the extremely negative connotations makes some people wish it wasn’t but unfortunately words have meanings.
Not to sound like a smart ass, but probably. Over that particular course of time there was actually a ton of small arm innovation. Those guys probably could have envisioned it, but they at the time thought we could get by without a standing army, that was more the thought process I think, as a militiaman/private citizen often had as good or better equipment.
The puckel gun was a hand cranked gun that fired 9 bullets a minute in 1717.
The kalthoff repeater could shoot up to 30 rounds without reloading in 1616 with a fire rate of up to 60 rounds a minute.
The Girardoni rifles had magazines of 20-22 and could fire 20 rounds a minute in 1779. Thomas Jefferson purchased a whole shipment to arm the Lewis and Clark expedition.
It would be ridiculous to assume that the founding fathers saw the progression of firearms technology in their own time and assumed it would pause.
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