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NickB79

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11. Which confirms that "well-regulated" is synonymous with "well-trained" in today's syntax
Tue Sep 3, 2019, 05:38 PM
Sep 2019

And while I feel most gun owners are woefully under-trained for anything other than shooting empty cans and deer, it doesn't alter the current stance the USSC had held with regard to individual gun ownership.

If anything, it argues for annual training and fitness events for all members of the organized and unorganized militia, ie all US men age 18-45. Now THAT would be fun to see, sweaty cursing Bubbas hiking in the Georgia heat, beer bellies jiggling as far as the eye can see 😂

For many gun owners, guillaumeb Sep 2019 #1
People claiming rights they dont have Fullduplexxx Sep 2019 #2
Enabled by Antonin Scalia, the self proclaimed originalist guillaumeb Sep 2019 #8
Yes. Clever with words, but with the judicial temperament of McConnell. Hortensis Sep 2019 #15
And the integrity of McConnell. eom guillaumeb Sep 2019 #17
And of Justices Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. nt Hortensis Sep 2019 #21
right, ignore elleng Sep 2019 #27
Merely prefatory. guillaumeb Sep 2019 #31
Zacly. elleng Sep 2019 #32
Making the US actually a part of the Commonwealth? guillaumeb Sep 2019 #34
"the right of _the people_" not the right of the members of the militia. n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2019 #37
You mean the right that the same framers ensconced in their respective state constitutions? X_Digger Sep 2019 #10
The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land. guillaumeb Sep 2019 #18
Kind of clear what they meant, though, when you look at the states. X_Digger Sep 2019 #25
What is so difficult to understand about the phrase "well regulated militia" in a Federal guillaumeb Sep 2019 #30
Pizza being important for study sessions, the right to grow and harvest tomatoes is protected. X_Digger Sep 2019 #43
Hell of a job, up against the most tyranical government we've ever had. Paladin Sep 2019 #5
Equally foolish is the idea that these mostly untrained gun owners might guillaumeb Sep 2019 #35
That is PRECISELY what I've been hearing from pro-gunners, for decades. Paladin Sep 2019 #38
And what they really mean is, guillaumeb Sep 2019 #42
2nd enables fighting FOR the government, not against HAB911 Sep 2019 #39
Ironic that many of these people are apparently afraid of their own guillaumeb Sep 2019 #41
The gun-humpers conveniently forget... albacore Sep 2019 #6
Some US citizens have never accepted that the slave faction lost that civil war. eom guillaumeb Sep 2019 #9
Even more... albacore Sep 2019 #13
The self described "sovereign citizens"? guillaumeb Sep 2019 #14
Oh, THAT Alex Hamilton. n/t elocs Sep 2019 #3
Most gunners only read "shall not be infringed." They are too stupid, or attracted to guns, to admit Hoyt Sep 2019 #4
They're the same people who read articles on illegal immigration... Initech Sep 2019 #7
Which confirms that "well-regulated" is synonymous with "well-trained" in today's syntax NickB79 Sep 2019 #11
And that argument, precisely, is why we have a national guard, administered by the several States... Volaris Sep 2019 #22
All well and good, but the militia was based on the people keeping and bearing arms. aikoaiko Sep 2019 #12
No it is not it's a gift from the supreme court . The militia was based on putting down insurrection Fullduplexxx Sep 2019 #19
No. No guns at home was never part of the deal. aikoaiko Sep 2019 #20
So when, prior to Heller Docreed2003 Sep 2019 #26
Prior to Heller it was ambiguous. aikoaiko Sep 2019 #29
So citizens owning guns is not a danger to the country? hack89 Sep 2019 #16
Dipshits shooting up schools, churches, theaters, are a danger to this country. denbot Sep 2019 #23
Just commenting on the OP hack89 Sep 2019 #28
Exactly n/t denbot Sep 2019 #33
K & R bookmarked for future reference FakeNoose Sep 2019 #24
What I gleaned from Federalist Paper #29 kentuck Sep 2019 #36
How is Meatloaf's 'Id Do Anything for Love' like the 2nd Amendment? HAB911 Sep 2019 #40
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