Libs are jumping all over this latest poll. If you want gun control, run on it! They won’t.
So Chicago - how is gun CONTROL working for you?
This is idiotic.
First of all, you would be hard pressed to find any public school teacher who could parse a sentence.
Second, the idea that a militia needs a law to be armed is silly. Was there a problem before with armies not being armed?
What it says is that for the militia to be well regulated, the citizens need to be armed.
Furthermore, every amendment in the Bill of Rights addresses an individuals right with the exception of the tenth. Why would every amendment be about individual rights and the second about state regulations.
Even if you buy the argument set forth in this article, then it is the states who regulate, not the federal government, which really did not exist when this was written.
1717 June 13 Albany, NY “Hunter, Robert (1664-1734)
Proposition to the Five Nations - : Governor Hunter assures the 5 Nations of the good will and protection of their sovereign, King George, so long as the Indians uphold their part of the agreement. He reminds them that the 5 Nations and the English are bound to keep peace with each other, and also to protect and defend the other in the event of an attack.” -"
“Brethren , , We are now mett at this place by Order of The King of Great Brittaine my Master, by who’s command and in who’s Name I now give you In this publick and solemn manner full assurance of his good will and affection towards you, and his powerfull Protection against all such as shall dare to molest you as friends to him and a people [strikeout] he has honor’d wt his special [struck: gra] grace and favour , In the same publick and Solemn maner I here In his name and by his Command renew the antient covenants wt yr five nations promiscing on his part that all the known Conditions of ye sd Covenant shall be punctually and duely obserb’d, so long as you shall honestly and faithfully perform what has in all times [inserted: hither to] been [inserted: strikeout] promis’d and perform’d on yours [2] And to prevent all mistakes on this head I must [struck: inform] [inserted: remind] you what has ever been mean’t and understood by you as well as us by the Covenant Chaine, that [strikeout] is, that on the other hand, The subjects of his Maty on this Continent should not only refrain from all acts of hostility or any thing tending lending that way toward you but readily attest you when you were attack’d by others or Inable you by such methods as were In their power to repell [strikeout] force by force or to defend your selves, and on the other hand you were on your part to live in the strictest friendship with all his matys subjects and In case they should be attack’d by any Enemy whatsoever to affect them the readiest and most Effectual Assistance In your power. , When I have receiv’d your answer to these Genll propositions I am to make you a very handsome present from his maty In token of his affection towards you and In assurance of his Protection to you, , [docket], 13 June 1717, Govs Publick Proposition to ye 5 nations.”*
source*Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.02127 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 49 W. 45th Street, 6th Floor · NYC, NY 10036,
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collections
BTW the Iroquois had no "militia"