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Yes. The second amendment is using the comma as an "and". It means that we have the right to both a well regulated militia and for the citizenry to own and bear
by bitJericho 9y ago
Yes. The second amendment is using the comma as an "and". It means that we have the right to both a well regulated militia and for the citizenry to own and bear arms. It is not for the purposes of conscripting the citizenry into some militia. It is intended for the citizenry to defend themselves, against tyrants and assailants.
If the second amendment was just about having a well regulated militia, then they would not have mentioned the second part about citizens bearing arms.
- vacri 9y agoThe comma is "just an 'and'"? > A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state and the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It's a garbage sentence. Also, there isn't a 'first part' and a 'second part', because "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" is not a complete sentence.
- bitJericho 9y agoThe sentence means this: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, shall not be infringed. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, being necessary to the security of a free State, shall not be infringed. The comma acts as an "and", to combine two different but similar rights
- eswoo 9y agoBut how do you infringe on a militia? Only one right is actually mentioned here; nothing is said about a right to a militia.