Why did I do such a 180 on guns?

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188. I figured you'ld point to the 4th.

And the people as a whole have a right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures, but individually, personas and houses can be searched on warrants.

person, persons. people, peoples. basic grammar. "People" is singular.

"Regulated" refers to militias, not weapons or persons, although a militia is made out of persons and weapons.

There is a line of thinking that says that "people" in the original Constitution (We the people) and the BOR does not refer to everyone who lived in the new USA, but literally the persons who signed the DOI and the Constitution. In other words the white, Protestant, rich ruling class. It did not include women, non-property owners, non-Protestants (except for MD), and non-whites. Think on it. Are slaves part of "We the People?" Are Indians? Are Irish laborers? What about women who could not vote or own property in their own names? Are they part of "we the people?" Among actual historians who study colonial and post-colonial USA, the census is that those involved in the 2nd Continental Congress and the early Federal period saw the Revolution as removing one rich, white patriarchy--the king--and replacing him with themselves. It was not until the Jackson presidency that a lot of people thought that the USA should be democratic.