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To: HMS Surprise

You bet. At the time the Constitution was written “well regulated” meant “hitting the target with monotonous regularity”.


16 posted on 06/22/2014 9:11:20 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow
You bet. At the time the Constitution was written “well regulated” meant “hitting the target with monotonous regularity”.

And I always thought it meant "trained" and practiced to the point of competence and effectiveness for the purpose of civilian and personal defense; as opposed to a trained standing army.

24 posted on 06/22/2014 11:22:55 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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