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sudo22@lemmy.world 9 months ago“Well regulated” does not, and has never, meant government regulations. Well regulated means more along the lines of well trained, equipped, and armed.
halfempty@kbin.social 9 months ago
The point is that a mob or gang of armed vigilantes pushing an extreme political agenda is NOT a well regulated militia. But those are the people holding up the second amendment. Ordinary citizens outside of the context of a well regulated militia have been outside of the scope of the second amendment until the rise of the NRA in the middle of the 20th century.
sudo22@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah thats just completely false. The second amendment does not say arms are a right of the militia.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
“the right of the people”. This was not an accident. The founding father’s rejected different drafts that made arms a right of the militia, instead realizing the government would use that wording to restrict people’s rights with the argument they aren’t part of a malitia.