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  73.  @jeremybackup5758  He was right. At the time the Constitution was written, "well regulated" generally meant "well trained." "Regulated" could have the meaning you give, but the phrase "well regulated" when used in legal documents etc. referred to training. To go a little deeper than that, the 2nd amendment was one of the last additions to the constitution before ratification. It's reason for existing originally had nothing to do with individual rights. It was a variation on laws found in English common law as well as some of the State constitutions. Those laws existed as a failsafe to prevent the king/federal government from being able to disarm regional/state militias. It was included in the constitution as a compromise to get anti-federalist delegates/states to ratify it. Individual rights (related to bearing arms) weren't really discussed at the time. Back then people identified with their state first and country second. Many states were wary of joining an agreement to form a federal government which could potentially dominate the states so they wanted an assurance that their official state (well trained) militias couldn't have their arms taken away by the federal government. The 2nd amendment essentially became obsolete with the end of the Civil War (if not before) as from then on, people identified with their country first and state second and a strong federal professional army became a thing while official state militias all but went extinct being replaced eventually by the national guard.
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