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.
Probably some of the most talked about commas in history. But the idea that most people accept today is that the 2nd amendment allows you to have guns. That’s about it. It doesn’t give you the right to shoot anyone.
Lol no they did not. People carried firearms openly since the beginning of our nation. They didn’t magically just start doing this. There is a reason they called the colt the pistol that won the west, and there is a reason we literally gained our independence using mostly privately owned firearms. There wasn’t really big laws until around 1934 for the NFA. Which is during prohibition.
Owning firearms has been an non issue for well over a century prior to the NFA.
But also, “militia” was and is defined to mean roughly “every able-bodied adult male.” It was very clearly about preserving the ability for the citizenry to assemble to defend themselves militarily. (That’s specifically in contrast to having a standing professional army, which is supposed to be unconstitutional BTW.)
it only covered militias though, which were all eventually became the national guards…because having miscellaneous bands of disorganized militias is obviously dumb as fuck
which all comes back to…the constitution is a bunch of empty words that mean nothing
Probably some of the most talked about commas in history. But the idea that most people accept today is that the 2nd amendment allows you to have guns. That’s about it. It doesn’t give you the right to shoot anyone.
for the first…150-200 years of this country, sctous had very clearly made out that amendment to only pertain to militias specifically.
The Constitution is just empty words meant to justify whatever the fuck the powers that be want.
Lol no they did not. People carried firearms openly since the beginning of our nation. They didn’t magically just start doing this. There is a reason they called the colt the pistol that won the west, and there is a reason we literally gained our independence using mostly privately owned firearms. There wasn’t really big laws until around 1934 for the NFA. Which is during prohibition.
Owning firearms has been an non issue for well over a century prior to the NFA.
https://time.com/5169210/us-gun-control-laws-history-timeline/
But also, “militia” was and is defined to mean roughly “every able-bodied adult male.” It was very clearly about preserving the ability for the citizenry to assemble to defend themselves militarily. (That’s specifically in contrast to having a standing professional army, which is supposed to be unconstitutional BTW.)
it only covered militias though, which were all eventually became the national guards…because having miscellaneous bands of disorganized militias is obviously dumb as fuck
which all comes back to…the constitution is a bunch of empty words that mean nothing