A 2nd Amendment Grammar Lesson

politicalhat.com ^ | 8/5/2015 | The Political Hat

[rktman]

Blithering idjit Chris Hayes seems incapable of understanding a simple sentence in English, to whit: The 2nd Amendment: The Supreme Court in Heller basically deleted the "well regulated militia" portion of the 2nd Amendment. #textualism #inners — Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes)

[rktman]

A diagram of a sentence? Who ever heard of such a thing? Looks like mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus stuff. LOL!

[navyguy]

Chris Hayes in the Goth Boy of the Left.

He’s a deranged, dishonest nitwit. He really has no place in a rational society.

[Fido969]

Would you stop watching Chris Hayes? You’re doubling his viewership.

[ClearCase_guy]

The people who don’t understand it, simply don’t WANT to understand itt.

[Chainmail]

"Well regulated" meant well-trained or well-drilled in the 18th Century parlance. That's why professional troops were called "Regulars".

Training is a good thing.

[rktman]

LOL! No chance I’m watching him.

[HiTech RedNeck]

True. That was why it was viewed as so important that everyone could bear arms at will. Practice, practice, practice made perfect.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And Heller was more about availability. Ideas of responsibility have changed over the years. Would you feel obligated enough to your neighbor’s security to want to take the trouble, expense, and possible danger to be well practiced in using arms?

Chivalry, if not dead, has turned into a zombie.

[CGASMIA68]

him=her

[real saxophonist]

When I marched to the Capitol with the Second Amendment Sisters, I had about three people in my face hollering, ‘WELL REGULATED! WELL REGULATED!’ I know what it meant in the 1700s, but there’s not much point in trying to explain that to people who just want to get in your face and yell. Semper Fi

[Sivad]

So true. And, one function of said militia
was to potentially oppose a standing army
sent by a tyrannical central government to
force their will on the people. The Federalist
#46 tells us that in words penned by James Madison.

[longtermmemmory]

it also meant citizens who would bring their own weapons to the task since the government did not just have them around.

[PATRIOT1876]

Chew on this for awhile ignorant emoboy:

“shall NOT be infringed”

Here's what the Founding Fathers said about “militia” and the 2nd Amendment:

“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” – Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1778

“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them”
-– Federal Farmer, Anti-Federalist Letter, No.18, The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788

“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms.”
- Letters From the Federal Farmer to the Republican, Letter XVIII, January 25, 1788

“No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state…such area well-regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.”
– Richard Henry Lee, State Gazette (Charleston), September 8, 1788

“[W]hat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” – Letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787; The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5) Vol. 5

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”

George Mason, co-author of the Second Amendment

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/history/the-founding-fathers-on-the-second-amendment

[TigersEye]

That is poster worthy.

[rktman]

Anyone for some lion steak and eggs?

[TigersEye]

THE UNABRIDGED SECOND AMENDMENT

[TigersEye]

lol

[Billthedrill]

It’s all posturing. The people who pretend to want you to join a militia in order to own a firearm would be the first to completely freak out if you actually did.

[stevem]

Seriously, a Court that has John Roberts as a member will never be restrained by juxtapositions and definitions of words.

[zeugma]

"Well regulated" meant well-trained or well-drilled in the 18th Century parlance. That's why professional troops were called "Regulars".

The term is still used in it's traditional sense with watches. When you have a good mechanical watch serviced, a part of that service should include regulating its accuracy.