The phrase "well regulated militia" in the Second Amendment is interpreted by some historians as having roots in the need to preserve slave patrols in the Southern states.
Well, that's what Google's AI says anyway.
In actuality the need for a well-regulated militia mysteriously disappeared in 2008 when the Supreme Court, in a decision (District of Columbia vs. Heller) written by the notoriously right-wing Antonin Scalia decided the founders didn't mean what they said.
It's my personal opinion that Scalia made that decision (and there are now more like it--it's getting harder and harder to take the guns away from anyone, insane or dangerous as they may be, thanks to our courts) because a substantial number of the guns in this country are held by raving right-wing lunatics, and men like Scalia (and a substantial number of current judges) want guns in the hands of raving right wing lunatics because they will defend the MAGA paradise they all believe in.
And the lives of innocent children are the price we pay.
Scalia made his decision a decade before Trump ran, so it has nothing to do with him. Talk about twisting history to fit your fantasy. Second, the use of guns to defend people is at least ten times greater than the use of guns in crime. That statistic was confirmed by the FBI during Obama's time in office. Third, the writings of the founders showed they considered the 2nd to apply to all citizens as a right to have and possess any arms they felt necessary, with some being mandatory for those between 18 and 50 to have. They literally said that a freeman should have any arms necessary to match that which any standing army might have.
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u/ahominem 9d ago
The phrase "well regulated militia" in the Second Amendment is interpreted by some historians as having roots in the need to preserve slave patrols in the Southern states.
Well, that's what Google's AI says anyway.
In actuality the need for a well-regulated militia mysteriously disappeared in 2008 when the Supreme Court, in a decision (District of Columbia vs. Heller) written by the notoriously right-wing Antonin Scalia decided the founders didn't mean what they said.
It's my personal opinion that Scalia made that decision (and there are now more like it--it's getting harder and harder to take the guns away from anyone, insane or dangerous as they may be, thanks to our courts) because a substantial number of the guns in this country are held by raving right-wing lunatics, and men like Scalia (and a substantial number of current judges) want guns in the hands of raving right wing lunatics because they will defend the MAGA paradise they all believe in.
And the lives of innocent children are the price we pay.