(August 23, 2016 at 2:03 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Actually, they were talking about "every shithead with a gun" - as they made explicit in the sentence which follows the reference to a well regulated militia. Not that you can blame them, whatever their reservations about militias were...they just didn't have alot of choice on the soldiering front back in the day...and didn't particularly like the thought of paying professionals or buying equipment.
All irrelevant today, as a living document (is it or isn't it..I can never remember) ofc?
Um no, the "militia" they were talking about then was to guard against insurrection as well as any foreign attempts. And "well regulated" denotes that organization. But I do agree that it is a living document designed so that laws can change with changing times, which means the "regulation" part regardless of a militia argument applies. No other product I can think of gets the same fervor of paranoia to change than gun worshipers give them. We don't have the same regulations today rotary phone technology used. We have all sorts of recalls from cars to toys to medicine if a regulation isn't followed to the point of injury, or is insufficient to protect the public, we update it. I don't see why firearms should be immune to laws, or updating laws like any other product.