[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

REMOVE words. That’s what needs to happen.

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Period. No! leave it alone. A well ordered militia is neccessary for a free state. In Colonial times a militia was a citizen army, not a professional army like today's national guard at the disposal of the government. The well ordered means it has organization and control and not a mob.

The right of the peop[le to keep and bear arms. This is neccesary for people to form a militia.

The two thoughts in the second amendment go hand in hand for power to be distributed to the people.

[BenLurkin]

Uh...who today is regulating the militia to which you are referring?

[hoosierham]

Federalizing the state guards was another progressive move following the Spanish-American War justified by the “need” for a better-trained national army. It just happened to severely weaken the states ability to resist the central government gone bad.

[FreedomPoster]

Our police forces at all levels have become that standing army our Founding Fathers were worried about. Look at the BLM. Heck, the DoEd has a SWAT team.

[Mycroft Holmes]

The phrase "well regulated" in colonial times:

The following are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, and bracket in time the writing of the 2nd amendment:

1709: "If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations."
1714: "The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world."
1812: "The equation of time ... is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial."
1848: "A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Mayor."
1862: "It appeared to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine proceeding."
1894: "The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated American embryo city."

The phrase "well-regulated" was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people's arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.

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