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In reply to the discussion: Our militias could definitely stand to be regulated better [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)40. your history is wrong
it has never been a community right, and has never been viewed as such outside of a Kansas Supreme Court Decision over one hundred years ago and maybe a few lower courts. It has always been an individual right.
http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndcont.html
Where were all those compromises when out of controller CCW and open carry laws were passed?
That is regaining ground lost to the Klan supporting restrictions in the 1920s.
Do you know what a activist judge is? One who makes a decision you don't like. Actually, it is one who makes a decision based on ideology, not the law or facts.
Trump won't get the nomination, and Bloomberg will run as an independent. You saw it here first.
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The government sometimes squelches seditious speech but that doesn't abrogate the 1A.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#10
Neither Shay's nor Washington's actions hold any bearing on others or the context of the 2A
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#12
The 1958 and 1993 amendments do not strike the provisions of the unorganized militia --
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#29
My neighbor's cat and I can call ourselves a "militia," like fundy bundy. Doesn't make it so.
Eleanors38
Jan 2016
#17
America's gunslinger mentality makes us look like fools to the rest of the world. n/t
Binkie The Clown
Jan 2016
#51
"Open carry nuts insist this stuff never happens." Feh- mere Colonism on your part:
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#63