On a slightly related tangent, the Pentagon spends money every year on research for a nuclear hand grenade. Figure that one out.
I think we should also have state militias, as the amendment reads. With nuclear hand grenades.
Taken literally, it seems like an amendment that sort of lacked vision, which I think is sort of uncharacteristic of the constitution as a whole (if Hamilton wrote it it would've been different
).
But to be fair, what about the 1st Amendment? Does the line "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" really mean that kids can't have prayer in school? What about "Under God"??? Is that Congress codifying a specific religion?