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Gun Control Reform Activism

Deuxcents

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4. I have been asking for years..

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Sat Nov 20, 2021, 08:43 PM

Nov 2021

I don’t have my Constitution book out but I believe it says .. a well regulated and trained Militia. I contend we have the Army, Navy, Air Force n Marines n National Guard n Coast Guard that fit that description. Regulated and well trained. I’ll get my book out..

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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