Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.checkmate,talk.politics.guns Subject: Re: Slaughtering concert goers. Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 21:25:19 -0700 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <4LMPC.193817$nq5.73490@fx36.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net s+zrnmooh0KbqyzV4aCspgZwzfg57IYbTbXjRWnwHNehhTbheO Cancel-Lock: sha1:g8+8uT3FAI5i3BMUa+CMSVf2sXc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:688062 comp.os.linux.advocacy:452971 alt.checkmate:169977 talk.politics.guns:1089652 On 5/31/18 5:49 PM, !Jones wrote: > x-no-idiots: yes > > On Thu, 31 May 2018 05:22:39 -0700 (Seattle), in talk.politics.guns > Jeff-Relf.Me @. wrote: > >> The " well regulated militia ", envisioned in the constitution, >> did not include depressed gunmen in Las Vegas Hotel rooms >> slaughtering concert goers. > > Actually, the "well regulated militia" was well detailed in article > six of our Document of Confederation and ratified in 1781. Article > six is very clear about it and has never been repealed. The second > amendment never redefined a "well regulated militia"; therefore, the > existing definition at the time holds. > > The salient part reads: "[Every] State shall always keep up a > well-regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and > accoutered, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in > public stores, a due number of filed pieces and tents, and a proper > quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage." > > Where are the arms kept? I assume that a "filed piece" means a "field > piece" or light artillery? But the arms are to be kept "in public > stores". It wasn't about a clock that keeps good time. > > Jones > > -- > Quod si non verum est, non dicere est. > At the time of the founding, and for many years after, there were laws against what we now call open carry, and even laws against having loaded guns in homes. The nonsense we are told now is just insane. -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.