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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Was the man not in the national guard? Seems he was exactly a part of a well regulated militia. That doesn't just automatically stop gun crime.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (23 children)

That's the point. It isn't well-regulated.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

The National Guard is not well regulated? Im gonna wager your definition of well regulated is a body in which nothing bad ever happens, which is not what well regulated means, that's called perfection.

If the national guard isnt considered well regulated then nothing is, and clearly the writers of the bill didnt intend for 'well regulated' to be an impossible standard. So if well regulated is going to mean something it didnt mean from the authors then that phrase no longer has bearing on the right, and shockingly enough the US Judicial system agrees with and upheld that.

This was a shooting by a member of a well regulated milita. That phrase or organization structure is not a magic spell that stops crime. The authors would have written 'crime free' instead of well regulated if that's what they meant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Funny, both you lose the intended scope of the second anyways. It has nothing to do with crime.

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