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Gun Control Reform Activism

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts) Sat Nov 20, 2021, 08:35 PM Nov 2021

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State....." [View all]

How exactly does the NRA/GOP/SCOTUS decide that this means that anyone can become a vigilante patrolling the streets and becoming judge, jury, and executioner?

Scalia, and the GOP segment of the SCOTUS, essentially dismissed half of the actual Amendment as "merely prefatory" so that Mr. Originalist, Antonin Scalia, could "discover" a right that gives every (white) person the right to carry a firearm.

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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State....." [View all] guillaumeb Nov 2021 OP

by IGNORING elleng Nov 2021 #1

In the words of "originalist" Antonin Scalia, guillaumeb Nov 2021 #2

EXACTLY. elleng Nov 2021 #3

I have been asking for years.. Deuxcents Nov 2021 #4

The Founders did not provide for a standing army. guillaumeb Nov 2021 #5

Yes..that's why every farmer, shop keeper ,etc Deuxcents Nov 2021 #6

In the south.... paleotn Nov 2021 #9

Exactly. Slave patrols were the first police force, and white males were all members. eom guillaumeb Nov 2021 #16

You have to read the Federalist Papers written by the authors of the Constitution to AndyS Nov 2021 #7

I read the Federalist Papers long ago in high school LastDemocratInSC Nov 2021 #14

Exactly. Madison imagined a small cadre of professional Officers commissioned by the State AndyS Nov 2021 #15

Yer preaching to the choir. dchill Nov 2021 #8

This is the Constitution where every word was carefully fought over. Kablooie Nov 2021 #10

For Decades And Decades WHITT Nov 2021 #11

THREE commas...... lastlib Nov 2021 #12

Yes IbogaProject Nov 2021 #13

Scalia described himself as an originalist, guillaumeb Nov 2021 #17

individual rkba was a corollary to militia - 1825 jimmy the one Mar 2022 #18