The defense and protection of the state and of the United States is an obligation of all persons within the state. The legislature shall provide for the discharge of this obligation and for the maintenance and regulation of an organized militia.
lol so you believe only the government should have access to firearms?
FYI why doesn't that militia you keep referencing allowed to keep their weapons on them and at their homes?
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DODGE AWAY
I know how to read.
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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.
evidently, you don't and stop acting as if you've have lost this argument many times
lol so you believe only the government should have access to firearms?
FYI why doesn't that militia you keep referencing allowed to keep their weapons on them and at their homes?
How did I lose? Simply because a false witness bearing right-winger says so. You need valid arguments not merely gossip, hearsay, or soothsay.
I ask, sir,
what is the militia? It is the
whole people, except for a few public officials."
— George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on
Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788
you keep repeating this same stuff and I ask you "DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN?"
You can't or you would present actual valid arguments for rebuttal instead of nonsequiturs which are usually considered fallacies.
Dude, you act as if all your post are forgotten from other threads they don't go away
You say don't regulate guns regulate gun lovers
You don't like the unorganized militia you believe the only militia is the national guard
You believe the only group that should have access to firearms is the government
So tell me do you know the meaning of George Mason's words?
Mason's quote supports my argument more than yours. Do You understand Mason's quote?
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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.
You notice it does not claim the unorganized militia is necessary to the security of a free State.
How do the words of George Mason support your position when you disliked
pknopp post?
"It's really irrelevant. The Supreme Court ruled the 2nd applied to the people and that's unlikely to change for a long time."
pknopp and I have gone toe to toe a few times but he seems to understand what George Mason was saying you on the other hand not so much.
States are welcome to challenge that ruling whenever it is convenient. Our Tenth Amendment is more supreme than any judiciary who cannot explain why they ignored the rules of construction and sacrificed the end to the means. Any legal error can be easily challenged.
Just as I said you do not know what you quote means
Do you believe George Mason would agree with you that a state can have restrictive gun laws?
Interesting you believe a state can suspend the 13th Amendment since the states have a tenth amendment right to do so?
Dude, you have nothing but appeals to ignorance and claiming that of me.
The whole and entire People are the Militia. Only
well regulated militia of the whole and entire People are declared Necessary to the security of a free State.
BUT DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS? EXPLAIN IT TO ME
You explain it to Me. I am not the one appealing to ignorance, straw man fallacies or ad hominems. Ask (relevant) questions on where you don't understand the concept.
It is very easy.
The fact the 2nd amendment implies there is one reason why the federal government is to have no jurisdiction over firearms, does not at all imply there are not many other reasons of equal or even greater importance.
Here is an analogy.
Commerce and and transportation being important to the national economy, the federal government shall not interfere with interstate commerce or transportation.
That means the federal government can't start setting speed limits on interstate highways.
But that does not imply that states of municipalities can't set some reasonable speed limits on local roads or interstate highways.
I would use a real example, except that the 2nd amendment is the only one that bothers to give any reason at all.
But again, no reasons are necesssary, and the existence of one does not in any way imply there are not also many more.