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I will never understand how everyone forgets the first part of the second amendment. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State"
by dsparkman 6y ago
I will never understand how everyone forgets the first part of the second amendment. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State". That pesky regulated Militia part that everyone skips over. Since the only "regulated militia" in the United States, currently, is the National Guard, that seems to state that you can't infringe on their ability to posses and carry fire arms.
- liaukovv 6y agoAnd who will fight national guard if it gets compromised?
- MagnumOpus 6y agoNot the weekend cosplayers and gun collectors. If both the Army and the NG are against you, you lose. Your AR-15 is no match to APCs with rudimentary night vision let alone tanks/artillery/air support.
- welderdude1803 6y agoIt is kind of funny then how we got beat in Vietnam and are being beat in the Middle East by people with rudimentary technology, and perseverance.
- liaukovv 6y agoSo you are arguing citizens need more guns?
- darklion 6y ago> That pesky regulated Militia part that everyone skips over. It's not that people skip over it, it's that it's interpreted differently depending upon who you're talking to and/or whose ax is being ground. The article below goes over a large amount of the differing interpretations and historical contexts of that phrase: https://reason.com/2019/11/03/what-is-a-well-regulated-militia-anyway/ https://reason.com/2019/11/03/what-is-a-well-regulated-milit...
- jaywalk 6y agoYeah, there are two parts: -A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State -The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed People try to twist it up to mean that only well regulated Militias have the right to keep and bear arms, but it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers did not mean that in any way. Private citizens owned cannons and freaking war ships back then.
- zepto 6y agoThat’s a modern interpretation. At the time it was written ‘militia’ meant every able bodied adult male, and ‘well regulated’ meant something like ‘suitably prepared’. There are debates about this, but a simple modern reading of some kind of rule based army is not likely to be what was meant.
- stmfreak 6y agoWhat was the National Guard equivalent during the revolutionary war?
- ceejayoz 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_militia_units_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_militia_...