• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    11 个月前

    A well regulated militia shall not be infringed sounds pretty meaningless to me. Can a well regulated militia take my car since they can’t be infringed? Can they openly kill anyone not in the militia? Can you not get speeding tickets if you join a militia? Adding being necessary to the security of a free state, does not clarify anything.

    The actual subject in the sentence is “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” If the Founders wanted it to be only members of a militia, they could have said members, militias, their, or almost anything other than the people.

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      11 个月前

      Just because you do not comprehend the statement, does not make it untrue.

      The SUBJECT of that statement is “Militia”. The statement self-justifies, then defines, then acts upon it.

      Your question response goes on to further expose your misunderstanding. Don’t get me wrong, this is not an attack on you. If there’s any blame to your misunderstanding, it lies in the school system.

      The Second Amendment grants members of the Militia, the right to keep their guns in their home. AS noted by another commenter, that would be the National Guard in today’s terms. In Founders terms, it was minutemen.

      All the 2A does is exempt Militia members from State or Federal Laws if those laws prohibit gun possession. It also exempts them if they require the discharge of that weapon in duty of preserving the Free State. This means if the Chinese military drops a paratrooper over a National Guardsman’s home, they are exempt from prosecution for shooting at them.

      Here’s the best part. If we repealed the second amendment, nothing would change. It never granted an individual rights to begin with so revoking it would not take those rights away.