Virginia Tech anniversary creates difficult moment on gun control for lawmakers

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10. You do realize that...

...socially speaking in the context of 1787 that "the people" is a social construct too. Assuredly they do not mean as to give Black people (slave or freeman) unfettered access to bear arms. Nor are women, pirates, or Indians being conceived as being part of "the people" in that context.

When they said "well-regulated" they meant regulated as we understand it, and not equipped as is often argued here, they new exactly what they were writing, if the intent had been otherwise it would have been "supplied." Whether you like it or not, that is the word that is used and it is used with purpose.

You may not like Blackwater or its derivatives, and frankly it's just the sort of "select militia" the Founders feared, but under our laws it is legal. I would also add that you really should read the Uniform Militia Act of 1792 if you want to get into what Militia meant at the time.

Look it over.