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You are willfully misinterpreting 2a. Police and national guard are not militias. 'The people' does not mean the state. This is not a recent interpretation. The
by dokem 4y ago
You are willfully misinterpreting 2a. Police and national guard are not militias. 'The people' does not mean the state. This is not a recent interpretation. The bill of rights outlines citizen's rights not the state. Obviously the state can have weapons. If you are a US citizen you have some learning to do.
- technothrasher 4y ago> Police and national guard are not militias. Uh, what? The National Guard most definitely IS the militia. Did you miss the Militia Act of 1792? A whole four years after the 2nd became the law of the land, they formalized the militia into what became the National Guard. You can argue about the militia clause in the 2nd being prefatory, but you really have nothing to stand on when you say the National Guard is not the militia.
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- ianburrell 4y agoUp until recently, the "collective right" interpretation was the law of the land. The "individual right" interpretation was argued about but was less than twenty years since became accepted.
- vlovich123 4y agoPlease educate me then cause I could be mistaken. Why was Heller so monumental if the 2nd amendment hadn’t traditionally meant that it applied to state’s rights to armed forces separate from that of the federal?