What is a “well-regulated militia” and why are we so sure it refers to everyone?

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"Well Regulated" refers to being armed and trained, not being regulated in what they can own or use.

"The phrase “well-regulated” was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected."
 
The rightwing will cite court precedent for this issue, but they don’t actually offer an explanation for why it should be interpreted this way.

Should this apply to 5 year olds? Should it be made legal for kids to buy firearms from a licensed firearm business because of how this is interpreted?
Come get us doosh. Lol don't you all see all this scumbag is doing is just wasting people's time?
 
Moron... "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" Note the words.. THE PEOEPLE. gender was not assigned.
Lol you’re right it doesn’t. That’s why it was pointless for you to define it as able bodied males
 
The rightwing will cite court precedent for this issue, but they don’t actually offer an explanation for why it should be interpreted this way.

Should this apply to 5 year olds? Should it be made legal for kids to buy firearms from a licensed firearm business because of how this is interpreted?
We don't have to sight precedent.....because you have to take the entire amendment into account.....not just parts of it that you think proves your case and exclude all others.
What part of the right "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?
 
Lol you’re right it doesn’t. That’s why it was pointless for you to define it as able bodied males
Moron.. we were talking about the term MILITA...

Second Militia Act of 1792[edit]​


Front page of a newspaper announcing the second Militia Act of 1792.
The second Militia Act of 1792 was passed on May 8, 1792, and provided for the organization of state militias and the conscription of every "free able-bodied white male citizen" between the ages of 18 and 45:

... each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia, by the Captain or Commanding Officer of the company, within whose bounds such citizen shall reside ...
Militia members were required to equip themselves with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a box able to contain not less than 24 suitable cartridges, and a knapsack. Alternatively, everyone enrolled was to provide himself with a rifle, a powder horn, ¼ pound of gunpowder, 20 rifle balls, a shot-pouch, and a knapsack.[10] Exemptions applied to some occupations, including congressmen, stagecoach drivers and ferryboatmen.

The militias were divided into "divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies" as the state legislatures would direct.[11] The provisions of the first Act governing the calling up of the militia by the president in case of invasion or obstruction to law enforcement were continued in the second act.[12] Court martial proceedings were authorized by the statute against militia members who disobeyed orders.[13]

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Prior to the militia acts it was "every free and able-bodied man"
 
We don't have to sight precedent.....because you have to take the entire amendment into account.....not just parts of it that you think proves your case and exclude all others.
What part of the right "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?
“Shall not be infringed” could still apply to any interpretation of a well regulated militia.
 
Moron.. we were talking about the term MILITA...

Second Militia Act of 1792[edit]​


Front page of a newspaper announcing the second Militia Act of 1792.
The second Militia Act of 1792 was passed on May 8, 1792, and provided for the organization of state militias and the conscription of every "free able-bodied white male citizen" between the ages of 18 and 45:


Militia members were required to equip themselves with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a box able to contain not less than 24 suitable cartridges, and a knapsack. Alternatively, everyone enrolled was to provide himself with a rifle, a powder horn, ¼ pound of gunpowder, 20 rifle balls, a shot-pouch, and a knapsack.[10] Exemptions applied to some occupations, including congressmen, stagecoach drivers and ferryboatmen.

The militias were divided into "divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies" as the state legislatures would direct.[11] The provisions of the first Act governing the calling up of the militia by the president in case of invasion or obstruction to law enforcement were continued in the second act.[12] Court martial proceedings were authorized by the statute against militia members who disobeyed orders.[13]

Source
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Prior to the militia acts it was "every free and able-bodied man"
If that is exactly what well regulated militia means, wouldn’t we be defining it as who has the right to own them?
 
The rightwing will cite court precedent for this issue, but they don’t actually offer an explanation for why it should be interpreted this way.

Should this apply to 5 year olds? Should it be made legal for kids to buy firearms from a licensed firearm business because of how this is interpreted?
i have no idea what you are trying to ask
 
The rightwing will cite court precedent for this issue, but they don’t actually offer an explanation for why it should be interpreted this way.

Should this apply to 5 year olds? Should it be made legal for kids to buy firearms from a licensed firearm business because of how this is interpreted?
You fools should figure out what a woman is before you tackle this concept... you wouldn't understand anyway.
 
The rightwing will cite court precedent for this issue, but they don’t actually offer an explanation for why it should be interpreted this way.

Should this apply to 5 year olds? Should it be made legal for kids to buy firearms from a licensed firearm business because of how this is interpreted?
Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Founding documents and numerous communications between the founders told us who the militia is.
 
So the whiny left is going to ignore Heller and pine about militias because they lost Roe? Perhaps rural America should embrace the militia movement. Oh how these urban centric liberal elites would howl then...
 

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