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This is a brief outline for a clarification of the discussion of this issue. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not establish the right to keep and bear arms. They recognize such rights, but the repeal of such provisions would not end such rights. Others argued that at least some of the rights needed to be made explicit in the Bill of Rights to avoid having future generations with less understanding of republican theory weaken in their defense of those rights. That has turned out to have been a good idea.