Well regulated meant well trained back in the day.
Yeah...like “gun control is a steady hand and a beady eye”
IIRC, members of the official military were not referred to as ‘militia’ but as ‘regulars’. The militia means organized citizenry, not military.
>>Well regulated meant well trained back in the day.
Correct sir! From my profile page, one of the more profound things I ever read on the subject; picked up from another FReeper:
The term “regulated” applied to clocks means “accurate in keeping time”. It made sense, particularly in 18th Century armies, to pay a lot of attention to how well soldiers could operate in massed formations. Soldiers had to be drilled to load, aim, and fire as one unit. You do NOT want the rifle next to you to be firing (and emitting a shower of sparks) while you are pouring gunpowder into your musket. Everybody had to do every step together with no screwups.