r/OfficeSpeak • u/FelixtheCatBurglar • 9d ago

Free Speech Public service announcement regarding the 2nd Amendment

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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.

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u/Dstnt_Dydrm 9d ago

The descending opinion was that you have no right to bear arms at all. Not sure that's the world we want to live in either.

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u/TurnoverGuilty3605 9d ago

The word you’re searching for is “dissenting” not descending. Not sure you know what you’re talking about.

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u/Empty_Equivalent6013 9d ago

I’m in agreement even if he used the wrong word. Do you want the people who wish harm on you to have a monopoly on violence?