Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "How to SCHOOL The Antigunners on "Well Regulated"" video.

  1. A "well regulated militia" means a militia controlled by rules, as in a regiment, by forming troops of armed citizens in each state. It has nothing to do with the type of arms, (arms meaning any kind), except that each person was to keep and bear arms. The Federal Govt had no control over that after the Constitution was penned, and this same said government was not supposed to have a standing army. Any army was to be raised by the states, and for defense only. It was the Federalists that pushed for a standing army. During Adams, a Federalist, he purposely placed John Marshall as the CJ on the SC, and that started the downfall of the strict reading of constitutional law. His type of interpretation came back in 1939. "In 1939 the U.S. Supreme Court considered the matter in United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174. There, the Court adopted a collective rights approach, determining that Congress could regulate a sawed-off shotgun which moved in interstate commerce under the National Firearms Act of 1934 because the evidence did not suggest that the shotgun "has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia . . . ." The Court then explained that the Framers included the Second Amendment to ensure the effectiveness of the military." Cornell U. Miller could very well be overturned. 2nd Amend.: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The word, "State" in the 2nd Amendment does not describe the Fed. Govt, but one of the individual states under the constitution.
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