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Originally Posted by sarettah
I understand that the word militia is in there. However it in no way says that the militia has the right to keep and bear arms. The actual ratified version has one comma and it clearly states that the people have the right to keep and bear arms. As I said, the Supreme Court said that it was clearly a right of the people, not of the milita. They addressed that very issue in the decision I linked to.
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So why would they say "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state"? Because they were bored? Because it looked better? Or because they were talking about arming the militia, which was made up of... the citizens....
You can argue this with me until you are blue in the face. But no matter what you say the first four words of the Second Amendment say "a well regulated militia" and you ignore this. You completely left it out when you first posted the Second Amendment because you consider it not important.