(10-04-2022, 03:27 AM)terracore Wrote: It is of the shortest and least descriptive of the amendments but there aren't many ways to interpret "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" other than exactly what it says.
Actually, terracore, your interpretation, and yes you bastardized the amendment to the point as to impose your interpretation over the actual wording of the amendment, which is..
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.
And, considering it's only one sentence, your omission of the entire first half, which obviously is a qualifier, ie a limiting factor over the second half, is all we need to understand you're not playing fair here. In other words, you're twisting the facts to support your narrative.. which doesn't help your cause at all. It just paints you as bias..
ETA, and just to wet your whistle, in my interpretation of the amendment that first half, the part you obviously don't like, means we, by having national guard organizations in each state, fulfill the need for a "well regulated Militia" and as such render the entire amendment moot. But then.. that's my biased interpretation..