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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: 07/18/23 12:31 PM
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I have the same question about "well regulated militia", to me that seems to mean
that rules and regulations can be applied to gun ownership. But the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" seems to contradict that.

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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."


Yes, but if "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" is just an "artful" (and quite unfortunate) alternative way of describing a "well regulated militia", the 2nd amendment boils down to only militias not being infringed, and thereby says absolutely nothing about individual gun ownership rights. Pretty much every household owned guns at that time didn't they? So it simply might have been unnecessary to belabor that obvious fact.

That is, the 2A would merely state that every state has a right to have a well-regulated militia, nothing more.
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