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[-] slingstone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Here's what I've often wondered: why, when the Constitution clearly indicates that bearing of arms is in the context of a" well-regulated militia", is it not permissible, under the Constitution, to regulate firearms? Do the second amendment types have any kind of argument about this? It just seems to me that within the context of the amendment itself, it's clearly implied that regulation will be necessary and will exist. Is there something that I'm missing?

[-] kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes. The text of the 2nd amendment is contested and several states passed different punctuation, which changes the meaning.

The most favorable version for individual gun ownership reads:

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 placement of the comma there makes the well regulated militia part an introductory clause, which explains the purpose of the second part protecting individual gun ownership.

That combined with the historical context that anyone called into miltia service was expected to provide their own gun is the justification for individual gun ownership being a protected right.

The more common text passed by congress is more ambiguous because it introduces an explanatory clause as part of the introductory clause, but you can still read it that way, which the supreme court currently has.

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.

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[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago
[-] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Pickup trucks - aka cars without visibility of their surroundings

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Bad timing for this meme. I do not trust the cops, esepcially not now. Correct course of action is to disband the police and create well-regulated militias (regulated by the people themselves, not the state). I see you're from dbzer0, you should know that cops aren't to be trusted.

Also: Dems really need to drop the gun issue if they hope to win an election, going "Beto O' Rourke" every election isn't helping.

Context: The moment where Democrats lost Texas Gubernatorial Election: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QR4mNrW0AlE

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[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Perhaps we could save twice that if we got universal healthcare. Investing in infrastructure to move away from car culture would do even better. Where is the active Futurist lemmy group?

[-] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

3600....so far.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago
[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

probably...

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

3000 people died one time in 2001 and the US government used the fear and rage to wage war and commit war crimes in multiple countries including those that had nothing to do with the attack for the next 20 years.

3000 children die at least every two years in the US and there's not enough fear and rage to wage war on the fucking NRA.

kinda makes you wish the gun manufacturers and their lobbyists were a bunch of brown skinned people, that shit would've been shut down pretty damn quick huh.

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