If the meaning of "regulated" must be based on the definitions when the Constitution was written,

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40. The problem is that the NRA tells you that the founders wanted

Every able American to be able to carry an AR15. Here is the point, they did...but not the way we are doing it. So we either change it (good luck with the repeal) or you want to driver right to Carry fans nuts? Sure you can, I have done this, when are you attending drill?.

What the founders wanted, and it has to do with their own fears of regulars is essentially universal conscription to the guard. You can have that, but guess what skippy, you are now part of the militia and we drill once a month. That was the requirement back then for gun owners, who were few and far between. The myth that they were wide spread is just that, a Hollywood myth. There were whole classes of people who could not own guns, and if they were out hunting, they did with papers of leave on them, kind of insurance, promissory note.

So damn straight, we want the right without the responsibility that the Founders implied. They would approve, of Switzerland, which has universal conscription and every male is issued his weapon when they go home, and remain in the reserves until 45, and drill every year.

Israel is also what they intended. It is the modern RKBA movement, praying to these dusty documents, that are clear in meaning, and courts, that have destroyed that.

So yes, we do need to talk of original intent, because it is not this mayhem. At the same time we must speak of rational gun control laws, and Fawke 'em

Oh and congress should go against the Court and pass a law essentially getting rid of the wrong headed Heller decision. Is this going to happen? Unicorns have a better chance to fart in the forest.