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Who Regulates “A Well Regulated Militia”?
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Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/
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"Anyone who pays attention to contemporary debates and discussions among this country’s 'constitutionalists' and 'patriots' about the meaning of the Second Amendment soon comes upon the contention that the phrase '[a] well regulated Militia' does not refer to 'regulation' by government. Instead, it supposedly means that the individuals who form a 'militia' on their own are themselves to put it into proper order, in terms of organization, equipment, training, and discipline suitable for the purposes of a 'militia' as they understand those purposes—without any control, direction, influence, assistance, or other participation by public officials." ... |
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teebonicus
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| Arrogant SOB, but he's right. |
| Comment by:
teebonicus
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| This guy is an insufferable narcissist, but his point is sound. |
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| There are other things so clearly out of the power of Congress, that the bare recital of them is sufficient, I mean the "...rights of bearing arms for defence, or for killing game..." These things seem to have been inserted among their objections, merely to induce the ignorant to believe that Congress would have a power over such objects and to infer from their being refused a place in the Constitution, their intention to exercise that power to the oppression of the people. —ALEXANDER WHITE (1787) |
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