RE: So...We're Expecting Al-Qaeda to Build Cruise Missiles?
December 20, 2014 at 5:06 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2014 at 5:08 pm by Chas.)
(December 19, 2014 at 12:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(December 19, 2014 at 8:38 am)Rhythm Wrote: It did, it referred to the most lethal firearms we were likely to possess at the time. A horrible weapon for a world at war - armies lining up mechanically and blasting the shit out of each other. Sucked.
Personally wouldn't like to be shot with a musket - but more especially I'd rather not be stabbed with an early sock bayonet.
(I also doubt that modern weapons were foreseen)
Actually it referred to a well-regulated militia which did not mean every fucking asshole with a gun.
Since 'militia' was the people, yes it did. And the Supreme Court says so.
Everywhere in the Constitution where it says "the people" it means that; the Second Amendment is not an exception.
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