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The Second Amendment: How Does It Work? Progressives Have No Idea
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Mark A. Taff
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I genuinely want to be done with defending the Second Amendment from the regular barrage of its historically illiterate and inept detractors—the people who say this amendment protects only the “right” of the “militia” to own weapons.
One friend and fellow gun rights activist said it’s best to just ignore such people, in the same way that you might ignore people who say triangles have four sides or that the Sun orbits the Earth. It is tempting to just stop engaging the dopes who simply refuse to consider basic, objective historical facts. |
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PHORTO
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There is a glaring omission from this article.
The author sets about debunking a ridiculous parsing of the Second Amendment, but his effort would be completely unnecessary if he made this one point:
The Second Amendment, as submitted to the states, ratified by the states, verified and posted by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, HAD ONLY ONE COMMA.
IOW, the superfluous 1st and 3rd commas generate the mischief the author arduously labors to dismantle, and if he merely stressed the "one comma" fact, such mischief would become moot.
Nobody knows who inserted those two commas, but the purpose for doing so is apparent - to equate "A well-regulated militia" with the "right of the people".
We need to address this, once and for all. |
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| No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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