Posted on 08/07/2019 6:53:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Second Amendment is why we can’t go to school, or work, or a house of worship, or a nightclub, or a movie theater, or a music festival, or pretty much any public gathering without fear of getting shot to death. The Second Amendment is why you can’t be immediately arrested for openly carrying around an assault rifle in a public place, and why you can’t be immediately arrested for smuggling a hand-cannon in your gym shorts. The Second Amendment is how law enforcement justifies the need for military-grade armaments—to match the “firepower” they meet in the streets. The Second Amendment is why we have a generation of young people that is scarred or missing from gun violence. And the Second Amendment is why I had to tell my 6-year-old last night to act like Scaredy Squirrel and “play dead” if an “active shooter” storms his classroom, thereby mangling the whole moral of the books.
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Textually, the amendment itself is almost toothless and easily amenable to regulation. Hell, “regulated” is written right into its text: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
See. You don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to conclude that this amendment is talking about the need for “militias,” not an individual’s right to own a bazooka; and you don’t have to be a historian to noodle out that the founding fathers—who revolted against a global superpower—thought that state militias were pretty cool.
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It was only in the 1970s that the National Rifle Association basically invented the new constitutional theory that the Second Amendment conferred a personal right to own military grade weapons for “self-defense.”
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the first half is the preamble what you stated is actually the 2nd
What astounding ignorance of history! The battle of Alamance. The “Regulators.” The Over Mountain Men. Etc. The need of the PEOPLE to be armed to REGULATE any tyrannical MILITIA.
IF THIS HAPPENS - WELCOME TO THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Not only that, but the USSC Miller decision of 1934, as wrong as it was in the application of law, made clear that Milita/military arms for the people was the intent of the 2nd Amendment. The court was not provided evidence that a sawed off shotgun was actually used by the military in WWI.
Exactly!
>> It’s Time to Repeal—and Replace—the Second Amendment
One could argue it’s time to muzzle this type of hostile rhetoric.
FIFY Elie
“I always thought it meant that, BECAUSE the militia must be well regulated, the citizens must have the right to keep and bear arms”
Absolutely, the start of the amendment stating the obvious need of a militia so that a state can remain free of tyranny, from foreign and domestic powers.
He should be a guest host on “Ancient Aliens”. He’s got the hair for it.
Elie Mystal....
Another emotional, liberal loser female who thinks she knows better than the Founding Fathers.
FOAD, Elie Mystal.
That THING is a male?
Did he / she / it transition?
Go pick some cotton, Mydol....Mystal.
2nd Amendment bump for later.....
We the people ARE the militia.
2nd Amendment bump for later.....
Because one person craps in their pants, the rest of us must wear diapers? Leave the 2A alone.
A well fed Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Sammiches, shall not be infringed,I'll bet Ms. Porker would immediately spot the flaw in any argument that held only the militia can have sandwiches, despite the fact that the two versions are syntactically identical. Damned HIPPOcrit.
Yeah that’s a great idea. /s
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