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What Does ‘Well Regulated’ Really Mean?
 Submitted by: Mark A. Taff
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But the power and absolutism commonly associated with the Second Amendment doesn’t seem to sway the skepticism espoused by two influential former U.S. Supreme Court justices.

On the Tuesday following the “March for Our Lives” rally on March 24 in Washington, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, writing an eight-paragraph commentary for the New York Times, argued that students and pro gun-control protesters should seek a repeal of the Second Amendme
 
Comment by: PHORTO (4/12/2018)
This question is a straw man that just won’t go away.

Grammatically, in that sentence the phrase “well regulated” modifies the noun “militia”, not the noun “right” nor the noun “people”. They aren’t even in the same clause.

Therefore the perpetual attempt to apply that modifier to the right fails grammatically, and is a specious effort to undermine the true meaning and public understanding of the amendment for ideological reasons.
 
Comment by: lbauer (4/12/2018)
The purpose of the founders as authors of our Constitution is perfectly clear to anyone who bothers to learn the common tongue of the day. Well regulated simply means well equipped. The militia clause was inserted into the Second Amendment to provide the new government the authority to require citizens to own and maintain arms necessary should a call for the unorganized militia become necessary.
 
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