CRUMBLING THE ‘COLLECTIVE RIGHT’ SECOND AMENDMENT ARGUMENTS: ““Nowhere else in the Constitution does a ‘right’ attributed to ‘the people’ refer to anything other than an individual right.” ...“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable...””
(blog.heartland.org)
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I say again, all the cucked up wording at tbe beginning of 2A can be chopped off and flushed down the toilet.
No other amendment has a JUSTIFICATION attached to it, suggesting that it would be illegitimate without that horribly punctuated gobbledygook explanation.
All that is needed are these, the most important 14 words in the entirety of our founding documents. For without them the rest are nothing but empty, defenseless words on a page:
*THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. *
[Just imagine the formatting worked on this site, so the 14 words appeared in italicized text.]
All that mumbo jumbo beforehand needs to go. It's obfuscatory garbage.
You are correct about the word ‘well-regulated’ meaning ‘equipped and prepared’.
To your other point, consider the inverse as well: 2A enshrines the right to keep and bear arms, INCLUDING as part of a Militia, being necessary to a free state. This expands upon the right (or blocks presumptive ways that curtailing or limiting its application might be attempted - i.e. ‘just for hunting’ or ‘only on your own property’ or ‘but no training with others’ or ‘only against foreign invasions’ etc.), it is not an attempt to ‘justify’ it.