{"id":84711,"date":"2022-08-21T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84711"},"modified":"2022-08-21T14:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T19:37:57","slug":"84711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84711","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Some still cling to idea of Second Amendment and militias<\/a><\/p>\n

The Second Amendment reads: [no, it does not<\/em> read that way. I wish these authors would not be so ignorant]<\/p>\n

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the people\u2019s right<\/del> right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[FIFY- fixed it for you]<\/p>\n

We also know that our Founding Fathers were fearful of a standing army, having seen that army used as a tool of oppression. As such, they favored citizen soldiers, much like how the Greek city-states maintained their armies.<\/p>\n

Little did they expect the debate that we would see since then over a single sentence. Unfortunately, the debate continues.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, we get pieces like this one\u00a0for LA Progressive subtitled<\/a>, \u201cMost constitutional experts argue that the Second Amendment protects the right of State militias to bear arms. Not private militias or individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not sure how they figure most constitutional experts agree with them unless they dismiss anyone who doesn\u2019t as a constitutional expert, but it doesn\u2019t get any better moving forward.<\/p>\n

Why does the United States have more civilian gun deaths than the entire rest of the world combined? Is it because people in the US are more violent? NO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except, we don\u2019t. Not even close.<\/p>\n

If you look at a list of civilian gun fatalities by nation, you\u2019ll find a lot of places whose numbers are far worse than ours, especially if you look at the per capita figures.<\/p>\n

Further, are Americans more violent? The author dismisses this out of hand, yet a look at non-gun homicides compared to total rates from places like Europe\u00a0suggests that yeah, we might just be.<\/a><\/p>\n

And now look at all of this and we\u2019ve only gotten to the subtitle and the first paragraph. You know this is going to be a disaster.<\/p>\n

However, it should be noted that most constitutional experts argue that the Second Amendment protects the right of State militias to bear arms. Not private militias or individuals. Be that as it may, exactly what \u201cwell regulated Militias\u201d did [redacting mass killers\u2019 names]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m sorry, but that line of \u201creasoning\u201d is just absolutely insane.<\/p>\n

First, why would the government need to protect the \u201cright\u201d of the government to have guns? Yes, it\u2019s different levels of government, but it\u2019s still government.<\/p>\n

Further, why is it that throughout the Constitution, when the Founding Fathers wanted to specify the states, they said \u201cthe states\u201d in every other instance but this one? And that every other place protecting a right of the people, it meant actual individuals everywhere but here?<\/p>\n

On ever level, this argument is absolutely insane. \u201cBut militia!\u201d they scream.<\/p>\n

Sure, but look at the Second Amendment for a moment. What exactly in the rest of it suggests that the right to keep and bear arms should be infringed for everyone\u00a0but<\/em>\u00a0the militia? Even if the right is to be taken as protecting state militias versus private ones, where in the Second Amendment does it preserve the right\u00a0just<\/em>\u00a0for those state militias?<\/p>\n

After all, it says \u201cthe people\u2019s right<\/del> right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what gives? Well, it seems some parties are more interested in manipulating the text of the Second Amendment to mean anything they want it to mean, and they expect the American people to swallow it whole.<\/p>\n

Sorry, that\u2019s not our style.<\/p>\n

Obviously, we haven\u2019t delved too deeply into this piece, but why should we? It\u2019s already clear they can\u2019t be reasoned out of this position because they haven\u2019t shown they reasoned themselves into it. They\u2019re simply trying to play games and hoping people are too stupid to see what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

Well, we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some still cling to idea of Second Amendment and militias The Second Amendment reads: [no, it does not read that way. I wish these authors would not be so ignorant] A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the people\u2019s right right of the people to keep and bear arms … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84716,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84711\/revisions\/84716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}