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| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(9/26/2019)
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"The right OF THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED."
The "we'll regulated militia ...." clause is an exemplar, and while NOT unimportant, does not state anything about the right or who owns it, or how the government must relate to it. |
| Comment by:
lbauer
(9/26/2019)
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It seems obvious to me that the militia clause was attached to the Second Amendment explicitly to enable the government to REQUIRE members of the militia, who at the time were all able bodied males between 16 and 45 not otherwise serving in the government, to own and maintain such arms as would be required in a militia muster.
To the best of my knowledge that definition of militia still holds today though should be expanded to all citizens whether male or female. |
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| To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defence of themselves and their country. — Timothy Dwight, Travels in New England and New York [London 1823] |
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