A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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Is it about protecting regulated state militias or personal protection?

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

Yeah it's weird how they wrote that during a time when militias were a standard way to get an army together. Almost like it has zero modern application.

DailyFlash · 56-60, M

@CountScrofula I think so

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@DailyFlash Yeah. Also just the relationship to, and use of weapons was completely different at the time the constitution was written. It's like having a policy for control of printing presses and trying to apply that to Facebook.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@CountScrofula It would be great if people realize that the States grant the right to bear arms and that gun crimes (such as murder and armed robbery) are almost always violations of State laws and very seldom violation of federal laws (such as buying a gun). As I've said before, the control freaks in Washington stole this issue from the States. And the purpose of the militia was to suppress Black slave rebellions and to chase down outlaws with a posse made up of local White townspeople and to fight off Indian raids.