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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DDonde · 31-35, M

Like many with points in the early constitution it is probably deliberately ambiguous

anythingoes477 · M

@DDonde Write a rule today about anything...........what do you think will be said about how poorly you wrote that and how it don't seem to apply anymore.........when it's read 275 years from today. The Constitution was not written poorly. The original writers just couldn't even imagine how stupid or corrupt people would be 275 years from the day they signed it.

DDonde · 31-35, M

@anythingoes477 I didn’t say the Constitution was written poorly. Ambiguity is not an inherently bad quality in political writing.

anythingoes477 · M

@DDonde Who back then knew a "well armed militia" would be morphed into it was the RIGHT of truly insane people to buy military weapons to shoot each other in malls?