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MD: Time to 'well regulate' guns
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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The amendment is short and to the point: "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 focus is on the valid role of state militias such as the Maryland National Guard to be prepared to defend the state from a tyrannical federal or outside power.
Such militias are legal and may not be banned. But even so, the very crystal clear adjective, "well-regulated," is unmistakably front and center. Well-regulated. As in government gun control. It's not just good old common sense, it's Constitutionally required. End of story, National Rifle Association. Pack up your loose marbles and start playing by the rules! |
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MarkHamTownsend
(5/26/2016)
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"(T)he very crystal clear adjective, 'well-regulated,' is unmistakably front and center. Well-regulated. As in government gun control. It's not just good old common sense, it's Constitutionally required."
Wrong. So I guess it's NOT "UNmistakable...." "Well regulated militia" meant well trained, and up to standard, in the venacular of the day. And, moreover, it's NOT "Constitutionally required." The right to keep & bear arms exists independantly of militia service -- hence the phrase "right OF THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms." |
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[The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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