CDZ Guns Tanks and Nucklear Weapons. The second amendment.

[Divine Wind]

IMO "well-regulated militia" is anachronistic unless SCOTUS defines an updated context. The second amendment needs well-defined regulations that still protect the right to self and property defense and lawful recreational use.....

Be careful what you ask for. There are a lot of things anachronistic about the Constitution. For example, why allow any fucking moron with a finger the "right to vote"? All they do is add to the noise or, worse, do as Alexander Fraser Tytler said, " themselves largess out of the public treasury". Obviously that is not in the nation's best interests. Best to have a qualification test for voting. IQ, education and, IMO, military service.

We'd also get rid of the "automatically a citizen" bullshit too. People would respect their citizenship more if they had to earn it. Too fucking stupid or lazy to do so? Fine. If someone is born here of citizen parents, then they can stay, they just can' suck off the public tit, vote or do anything else a citizen is allowed to do.

 

[Fishlore]

Your grammatical approach to the Second Amendment is anachronistic. The authors of the Bill of Rights were unaware of the term "subordinate clause" hadn't been invented yet. They were all fluent in Latin, where the ablative absolute is routinely used at the beginning of a period (what they called a sentence) to provide context, chronological, social etc.

What is much more enlightening than grammatical analysis is a study of the extensive debates in the newspapers and pamphlet wars about the Second Amendment which swept the country in the period immediately before the ratification of the Bill of Rights.

Scholars have long known that the amendment in its final form is a rather crude cobbling together of two different proposed amendments on the topic. What topic? The state militias and the very controversial issue of the military forces available to the federal government.

Although there have been relatively few Supreme Court cases over the Second Amendment, the interpretation of the militia clause is well documented in the opinions which have been handed down over the centuries,

A quick read on the basic points of the topic is:
The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms (Independent Studies in Political Economy) by Stephen P. Halbrook I recommend it -- Kindle edition only ten bucks