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There Is No Constitutional Right to Bear Arms
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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If one reads only the last 14 words of this sentence, it seems to unambiguously affirm the right of citizens to gun ownership. But that’s not what the sentence as a whole states. The 16 words that precede them limits such ownership to a single purpose, namely participation in a “well regulated Militia.” This phrase, subtended by its intended purpose, means participation in a state-authorized force for the protection and preservation of the Commonwealth. |
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PHORTO
(4/17/2021)
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Where have you been, in Kalifornia?
Since other worthy commenters have exhaustively dissected your poopstink, I'll limit my response to the most basic and obvious.
Grammatically, the prefatory (subordinate) clause merely announces the purpose for putting the guarantee in writing. The operative (independent) clause assumes a preexisting right of the people, not of the states, and declares that it shall not be infringed.
"Because of THIS, we are guaranteeing THAT."
THIS ≠ THAT
They are two different, distinct things. The militia doesn't create the right, the people endowed with the right create the militia.
Rinse and repeat, until your brainwashing evaporates. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(4/17/2021)
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Funny, my edition of the U. S. Constitution has the second amendment, which clearly states "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Linking the right to militia service is erroneous. "Shall not be infringed" means the govt. cannot either intrude into the inalienable right, or diminish said right, to possess and carry arms.
Heller vs. D. C. got one thing right, it said the right was distinct from militia service. That was always the case ... but as of Heller, there simply no reason for people to get it wrong.
Unless, of course, they want to ..... |
| Comment by:
shootergdv
(4/18/2021)
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| The "well regulated(as in trained)" militia is all citizens ! |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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