Household accidents with guns are actually pretty rare. Bathtubs, on the other hand, are deadly and need to be kept locked up. https://twitter.com/SallyAlbright/status/960582792559124480 …
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It is. The idea of pervasive "government regulations" had yet to take hold & the phrase would have been unrecognizable in that context.
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Looking back at recent behavior of urban police forces I think I would greatly prefer a properly functioning citizens militia over the very dysfunctional professional police force.
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pointless speculation though. with a society as generally dysfunctional as this one I have little confidence that a citizen's militia would be properly functioning.
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The Bundys seem to have pulled it off.
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this is not the world I want to live in
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Oh, me neither...but I think objectively it was a successful example.
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“well regulated Militia" (3 WORDS) is a Militia that is "organiz[ed], arm[ed], and disciplin[ed]" ART I, § 8, CL 16 according to law—not "self-regulated" by arbitrary individual standards.
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Writing contemporary to the founders refers to the militia as the whole of the people.
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Even the precursor to the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, expressly mandated that “every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred” (Arts. of Confed’n art. VI, ¶ 4.)
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Every Colony/State identified herself as keeping her Militia "well regulated" in the titles & bodies of their Militia statutes in 1788 & 150+ years prior— • Rhode Island “Regulating” Her Militia http://bit.ly/2fMftDP • Virginia “Regulating” Her Militiahttp://bit.ly/2fuis0N
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