Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!85.12.16.68.MISMATCH!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad!fx20.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: Slaughtering concert goers. Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.checkmate,talk.politics.guns References: <4LMPC.193817$nq5.73490@fx36.iad> From: Just Wondering User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/62.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 47 Message-ID: <2O2RC.128019$nT1.62053@fx20.iad> X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenet-news.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 03:58:54 UTC Organization: usenet-news.net Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 21:58:54 -0600 X-Received-Bytes: 3147 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3100082841 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:688603 comp.os.linux.advocacy:453812 alt.checkmate:170889 talk.politics.guns:1090551 On 6/3/2018 9:28 PM, Snit wrote: > On 6/3/18 8:14 PM, Just Wondering wrote: >> On 6/3/2018 5:01 PM, % wrote: >>> On 2018-06-03 3:24 PM, Just Wondering wrote: >>>> On 6/3/2018 4:02 PM, % wrote: >>>>> On 2018-06-03 2:59 PM, Just Wondering wrote: >>>>>> On 5/31/2018 6:49 PM, !Jones wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ...  article six of our Document of Confederation >>>>>> No such document has ever existed. >>>>> >>>>> oh you didn't know >>>> >>>> I'm pretty sure Jonsie means to refer to the Articles of >>>> Confederation, which existed, not some bullshit made-up "Document of >>>> Confederation." >>> >>> i don't know what any of these things are >> >> At the end of the American Revolutionary War, the 13 states >> drafted the Articles of Confederation to outline a federal >> government.  That government proved ineffectual, so a few >> years later the states sent representatives to amend the >> Articles.  They ended up scrapping them and drafted the >> Constitution to form a stronger federal government. >> >> Jonsie apparently things the Articles of Confederation >> informs us on the meaning of the Second Amendment to >> the Constitution.  As usual, Jonsie is wrong. > > The language it uses can help us to understand the language of the > Constitution. > > > ----- > ... 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. > ----- > > In no way is that binding law, but it does give insight into the > thinking of the day and of those in power who were writing such documents. It's useless for the purpose at hand, which is the meaning of the right of the people to keep and bear arms.