Airforceone wrote:
Actually why don’t you fact check me. I will give you a couple of examples but do the research on book bans mostly in red states. There are many articles you can read. Actually Texas is big on book bans. So with your insult to me GFY
And yes I read the constitution on everybody’s right to own a gun. But idiots like you don’t want to read the last part of that sentence which says everybody right to own a gun to form a militia and ignorant people like you have no idea what a militia is.
Not everybody’s right to buy an assault rifle walk into a classroom and blow 19 kids to pieces. Is that what our founding fathers had in mind when the wrote the constitution.
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AirFart1, conservative people only want to keep sexually explicit books away from all preteens.
The Second Amendment states:
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. (source: constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-2/
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State
We don’t forget about that part, also known as the prefatory clause, something you covered in English class, or I hope you did. A prefatory clause announces a purpose but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause.
In this case, the operative clause is:
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed
The prefatory clause just announces why the operative clause is needed. It can be disregarded or replaced by almost anything without really changing the meaning of the operative clause. It could read as:
Because our government might try to impose a tyrannical rule,I need a good breakfast so,George over there says,
And it would have no effect on the meaning of the second part. It could also be completely deleted.
But, if you really REALLY want to keep the first part, I’ll translate it into modern lingo for you:
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State
a well-regulated militia is in modern lingo, a well-maintained, well trained and kept Militia (well-regulated does not mean with a shitton of regulations covering it…, just like a well-regulated clock is one that functions well, not one that is governed by regulations).
And I ask you, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials - George Mason. Meaning everyone is a part of the militia (or at least, every adult citizen of the United States)free State does not refer to a State like Texas, Missouri, Commiefornia etc., but to the State of being Free. For you as a person to be free.
So if we translate the entire Second Amendment into modern, it would read as:
Because a well organized Militia is necessary to ensure the Freedom of every citizen, the government, both State and Federal shall not make any attempt to infringe on the Right of the People to own and bear arms of any kind