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The 2nd Amendment is rooted in the (very real and always current) distrust of the concentration of violent coercion in state hands AND (outdated) in the idea of having an armed populace to serve as a militia in a pinch.
If you want to call that "cultural" and not pragmatic and wise, whatever. Sorry if I take a long view of human nature and see how organized groups use and seek out violence to carry out an agenda. Personally an armed populace of citizens is a firewall I can live against such things with if it occasional opens up a higher possibility of day to day violence.
Fuck..arguing this makes me feel like a Republican..god I feeel icky all over...