frigidweirdo
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Are you Biden's teleprompter writer or Kamala's?
Nope, I'm educated.
"but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms."
They were looking at the clause of the future Second Amendment in the House in 1789
So, they were worried the feds would compel people to "bear arms". Are you suggesting they'd compel people to defend themselves?
Mr Gerry (of gerrymandering fame) said: "Now, I am apprehensive, sir, that this clause would give an opportunity to the people in power to destroy the constitution itself. They can declare who are those religiously scrupulous, and prevent them from bearing arms."
The Mr Gerry said: "Now, if we give a discretionary power to exclude those from militia duty who have religious scruples, we may as well make no provision on this head."
So, he used "bearing arms" and "militia duty" synonymously. Why?
"Mr. Jackson was willing to accommodate. He thought the expression was, "No one, religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service, in person, upon paying an equivalent.""
Mr Jackson used "bear arms" synonymously with "render military service"
Now, you go find me a document that shows that the 2A was about individual self defense, because ALL the historical documents suggest the 2A bear arms clause was about protecting the militia by protecting individuals's right to be in the militia and to own weapons the feds could not take off of them.