from memory,
Well-regulated militia implies an army, like Ukrainian territorials are today and under the command and control of the civil government. Private individuals owned canon and had bombs when the second was written and the brits had rockets too, then there are swords and a variety of other fighting weapons used at the time. You can walk down the street open carry with an AR15, but not wearing a sword!
Don't be absurd!
no; in the beginning the US had no professional or standing army. The militia designation was so that likely draftees could maintain some skill with their arms.
which is why I point out that not only the social setting but the terminology has changed. Well-regulated had a relevant meaning more like “in good tune”.like Ukrainian territorials are today and under the command and control of the civil government. Private individuals owned canon and had bombs when the second was written and the brits had rockets too, then there are swords and a variety of other fighting weapons used at the time. You can walk down the street open carry with an AR15, but not wearing a sword!
I have always interpreted that to mean that all able bodied men in an area were required to participate in the local militia, as there was no national guard, no one to call for help that would not take days, if not weeks to arrive. That militia would have a leader, a trainer, who regulated their actions...and who would willingly comply with the proper authorities, if and when they ever arrived. The only reason those people were given the right to keep and bear arms was to act as that militia, which is not only no longer necessary, but is actually detrimental in nearly all cases now.
I don’t know how they ran things back then. I don’t remember reading about mandatory peacetime training, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t. However, wouldn’t they then have a status less of a militia and more of a reserve?
criminals won’t follow the gun laws to begin with. See Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, or say……the entire country of Mexico
Doing nothing is working so well
It’s about weapons designed to kill as many human beings in the least amount of time
They had the continental army before that and a fellow named George commanded it, why he even enforced vaccination on his troops!
How many mass shooters have used that method?
Yes, it is. Doing nothing is called meditating. When you clear your mind of all thoughts. Something that criminals and killers have a hard time with.
reserve to what? there wasn't even much of a standing army when the amendment was added, if i recall correctly.
Why not, let's play whackamole! The average gun owner is a moron with a sub 100 IQ, this is a fact, most smart people don't own guns, about 35% of the population does, so it adds up statistically. These people generally don't have the brains to construct a railgun or 3D print one and most have limited resources as well as intelligence. Just 3% of the population owns 50% of the guns and when the regular folks turn theirs's in, what is left will be much easier to deal with. Though I expect robodog will come out of the rubble of a few houses carrying a gun in its jaw pincers, and some might even have cold dead hands attached to them.
That's what prisons are for, and it will make it much easier to put them in one, get caught with a gun and go to prison for serious time, apples to everyone, including "criminals", but they get more time. So, if you've been busted for a DUI and get caught with a gun more time.
After the war they disbanded the army.
Measure 114 Is not dead in the courts, it's stalled by a hick judge in a hick county. He's doing what illiberal conservatives always do when the majority has spoken, he's slowed it down but eventually has to issue a final ruling so that it can move to the higher courts.Looks like the far left in Oregon see the writing on the wall with Measure 114 and realize that it's likely not going to get past the courts. So now they're trying to do it through the State Legislature where it will likely pass and still end up stopped by the courts.
It also looks like they're trying to raise the fees as well so they can raise more money to waste on all of their failed programs that are nothing more than funneling money to the well connected. Grifters all of them.
"The bill would increase the fees to apply for a gun permit from a local police department or sheriff’s office from $65, as set out in Measure 114, to $150 and to $110 for a renewal permit."
Oregon’s stalled gun control Measure 114 gets new life as state bill
State Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday presided over hearings on a new bill that incorporates many of the gun control regulations voters approved under Measure 114, yet changes some of its provisions.www.oregonlive.com
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