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TeddyR

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6. The Second Amendment

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 02:31 PM

Dec 2015

States that a militia that is properly trained -- i.e., "well regulated" -- is necessary to the security of a free state. A quick Google search will point you to plenty of articles that explain that "well regulated" meant "well trained" or some equivalent at the time the Second Amendment was drafted. To interpret "well regulated" to mean "heavily regulated by the government" doesn't even make sense. For example, using that definition:

A militia that is heavily regulated by the government being necessary to the security of a free state, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

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So in the Old West [View all] Gman Dec 2015 OP

The myth of 2A gwheezie Dec 2015 #1

You are correct. In fact the 2A calls for regulation. "A well jwirr Dec 2015 #5

The Second Amendment TeddyR Dec 2015 #6

I left off the militia part because I was emphasizing the jwirr Dec 2015 #8

2A doesn't call for anything. beevul Dec 2015 #12

That's how Wyatt Earp cleaned up Tombstone world wide wally Dec 2015 #2

Only temporary confiscation; technically sequestration. JonathanRackham Dec 2015 #3

In the Old West this was not done in every town and they jwirr Dec 2015 #4

I guess Duckhunter935 Dec 2015 #7

I really do not see the implied connection between guns and jwirr Dec 2015 #9

Either constitutional rights are universal or they are not. hack89 Dec 2015 #10

WTF? Gman Dec 2015 #13

I have no problem making the criminals turn in their guns. hack89 Dec 2015 #11

Locking thread. TexasTowelie Dec 2015 #14