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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: g0177325 ⎊✺  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The true meaning of the "right to bear arms&q
Date: 07/19/23 9:47 AM
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So if "keep and bear arms" had both a common usage meaning and a 'term of art' meaning back in the day, you would use the common usage meaning to construe the 2A, unless there was a very good basis for not doing so.

James Madison wrote the amendments, right? I don't suppose James Madison himself had tried to clarify the meaning of the 2A. I guess not, or the debate might well be long over.

There's apparently been more research done on the meaning of "bear arms" "back in the day". It's a field called corpus linguistics. The "new" evidence suggests that "bear arms" was much more commonly applied in the context of a militia than not! I thought this was a good 8 minute discussion of that - YouTube: The 2nd Amendment Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means | Think Again (NBC News)
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