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Reply to "Taking the guns early"

Recratican posted:

Okay, so the term militia may still be used. I don't know any states who call theirs a militia. I don't think anyone has a problem with that.

I might also note that the Second Amendment is a two part statement. The first part is a reason for people owning their own arms; that an armed populace can defend the state. The other part is a simple declarative statement that the goobermint won't mess with people's individual right to own weapons.

I might note that the Second Amendment came from the concept of the natural right to self defense. I also would point out that natural rights meant to the writers of the Constitution that the right came from God or nature, not the goobermint.

You might have a go at the word "regulated", but that had a different meaning in the late 18th Century than what you would think now:

 


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