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@pptsapper WORD. We can't read the 2A without also reading Art. I §8. Congress can act:
"To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
[ie, the navy is permanent, but the Army ain't]
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"To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
[ie, the navy is permanent, but the Army ain't]
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@pptsapper "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;"
[see "no standing army," above]
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[see "no standing army," above]
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@pptsapper "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia... reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
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@pptsapper ... [ie, Congress is explicitly allowed to regulate the "well-regulated militia" that replaces the nonexistent standing army]
But yeah, NRA, tell me more about how every obese suburbanite with ED is entitled to a military-grade weapon free of any regulation by Congress.
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But yeah, NRA, tell me more about how every obese suburbanite with ED is entitled to a military-grade weapon free of any regulation by Congress.
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@pptsapper (Don't get me wrong, though. I fully support the Second Amendment -- ie, I strongly believe that Congress is not allowed to seize state National Guard armories without good cause.)
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