Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939) [View all]jimmy the one
(2,717 posts)johnston: Well regulated means well equiped.
johnston, defining 'well regulated': which meant you show up with your own gun and gear if called and is well equipped.
How many times are you going to repeat this bulloffal? Tired of playing whack-a-mole over the years with your specious word twisting and misconceptions disinformation & misinformation.
Point out to me which definition in websters 1825 contemporary dictionary defines 'regulate' as 'equip':
websters 1825 dictionary: REG'ULATE, verb transitive
1. To adjust by rule, method or established mode; as, to regulate weights and measures; to regulate the assize of bread; to regulate our moral conduct by the laws of God and of society; to regulate our manners by the customary forms.
2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
3. To subject to rules or restrictions; as, to regulate trade; to regulate diet.
http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/regulate
Answer GONG, nowhere. Regulate does not mean to equip, nor does equip mean to regulate.
A well regulated militia should be equipped with arms yes when drilling or bearing, but that is an ancillary part of being well regulated.
An UNorganized militia however would not need be equipped with arms, as is seen by the current state of the unorganized militia.
The definition of 'equip' in websters 1825 does indeed define it as providing clothes or items properly so as to dress or to 'habit', and indeed arms can be furnished to military or militia so as to equip them. However, providing arms is simply an example as to what can be used to equip - arms are not the underlying definition of equip. Equip means to dress properly, whatever the body or entity may be. Webster used the example of equipping a regiment as an example.
EQUIP', verb transitive
1. Properly, to dress; to habit. Hence, to furnish with arms, or a complete suit of arms, for military service. Thus we say, to equip men or troops for war; to equip a body of infantry or cavalry. But the word seems to include not only arms, but clothing, baggage, utensils, tents, and all the apparatus of an army, particularly when applied to a body of troops. Hence, to furnish with arms and warlike apparatus; as, to equip a regiment.
2. To furnish with men, artillery and munitions of war, as a ship. Hence, in common language, to fit for sea; to furnish with whatever is necessary for a voyage. http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/equip
habit: 3. State of any thing; implying some continuance or permanence; temperament or particular state of a body, formed by nature or induced by extraneous circumstances; as a costive or lax habit of body; a sanguine habit
http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/habit