'cause they probably spent a couple hundred thou to focus-group that particular choice of wording to hide their true agenda.
And, this crap will continue so long as there is so much money, power, and propaganda pushing to remove the basic human rights of free people. Note the front page NY Times article stating that an individual rights interpretation of the second amemdment would have been “unimaginable” a few decades ago when all law scholars would have believed the second amendment applied only to the states’ right to maintain a militia. Such a black-and-white lie on the front page of one of the most widely distributed and quoted news organs in the world is astonishing and infuriating, in part, because it promotes an agenda with misinformation—no different than the old Soviet Pravda.
In truth, a collective rights interpretation was a recent concoction used as one of several tactics to achieve a socialist gun ban. Other tactics include appointing judges with the lack of professional integrity to apply rather than distort the law, marches of unintelligent, poorly informed, and emotional people agitated by loudmouthed leftist celebrities, tacking restcictions onto needed legislation, creating simple distorting Goebbels-inspired phrases to confuse the issues, media and entertainment messages stereotyping gunowners, media and entertainment images of gun acts that defy physics, information in schools that distort knowledge of arms or that block arms safety information so as to give the impression that owning or using arms is bad, and others.
The truth has taken a long holiday and needs to be put forth clearly and repeatedly in the widest possible manner. Americans’ freedoms and safety desparately require it.