Nobody is tripped up by the opening clause. They use it to obfuscate the perfectly clear meaning of RKBA.
After thinking about it for almost thirty years, I have concluded that the part that most disturbs the left is ". . . the security of a free state. . ."
Nobody is tripped up by the opening clause. They use it to obfuscate the perfectly clear meaning of RKBA.
After thinking about it for almost thirty years, I have concluded that the part that most disturbs the left is ". . . the security of a free state. . ."
Well stupid people get tripped up by it, other more insidious people purposefully twist and obfuscate it as you say, true.
Once upon a time I was naive enough never to attribute to malice anything that could be explained by stupidity.
Then I figured out that stupidity, that is, deliberate ignorance, is malicious in and of itself.