U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Gun Rights Group's Challenge to State Assault Weapon Ban

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14. We've seldom had a "well regulated militia."

If, by well regulated, you mean a militia that has a lot of government rules, limitations, monitoring requirements, and other regulations imposed on it, not.

If you mean a well-equipped and well-trained militia, we've taken some incremental steps in that direction. Equipped is easy enough. Training the citizens, though, in proper care and use of their firearms is a different matter.

Then again, in many areas of the country I don't want the militia to be well regulated. If they could aim better it would just increase the homicide rate--but probably reduce the collateral damage of having innocent bystanders killed.

Remember: Language changes. The word "starve" originally just meant "die." "Lewd" just meant "not in the priesthood." If you aren't clear about meanings of words you really don't know what a text says and can't say anything meaningful about the text. Then again, if you aren't careful about the meanings of words you can't really say anything that can be relied upon to be meaningful.