Virginia Tech anniversary creates difficult moment on gun control for lawmakers

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8. The "construct" is the problem.

If militias are composed of a selection of people, and the Second Amendment guarantees the right of the people to be armed without infringement, then the right of any militia you care to name derives its right to to be armed from the people.

People exist in the real world. Militias are associations, or "constructs", which citizens have a right to create without governmental sanction. Those citizens who are unwilling or unable to do so are still consedered people, who have the right to be armed. But that's actually beside the point.

Why would we support the rights of an association, an artificial "construct", above the rights of people? How can progressives decry the concept of corporate personhood and in the same breath support another abstract association as if it had civil rights?

Nobody on this planet is better at establishing, funding and perpetuating associations than corporations. It's what they do. They already have unmatched economic power. Does it make sense to give them the right to be powerfully weaponized as well? Blackwater is a militia.

Think about it.