The Left Have Shot Themselves In The Foot

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  1. Patricio Da Silva

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    No, 'keep' could easily mean 'own'.

    "bear arms' means to take up arms in a fight, usually in a military context.
     
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    Thank you, I appreciate this.
     
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    Incorrect and far from unreasonable. Translating the second amendment as well as the many other references on the subject does not leave room to infer it would be restricted to taking up arms in a fight. Forming a militia of people that have never touched a firearm is not a reasonable strategy. Might as well issue them Derringers and the book "Shooting for Dummies!"
     
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    How do you know that to be true in every circumstances??
     
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    Irrelevant. If victims are unarmed, the rapist/killer has an advantage in EVERY circumstance.

    Would you disarm armored car security guards?
     
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    Why do you feel it is irrelevant?
     
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    The historical context of 'bear arms' is that the phrase is predominantly used in a military context:

    https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/9064/Campbell_okstate_0664M_12057.pdf

    The digitization of historical documents provides historians with the capability to determine the meaning of the right to bear arms. Nathan Kozuskanich searched “bear arms” in “120 American newspapers from 1690 to 1800” along with numerous newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides in the Library of Congress online database. He found that nearly all of the articles “use the phrase ‘bear arms’ within an explicitly collective or military context to indicate military action.” Kozuskanich concludes that Americans in the eighteenth century “overwhelmingly used ‘bear arms’ in a military sense both in times of war and in times of peace.”

    And, this is confirmed by @Golem:

    http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/english-102-to-keep-and-bear-arms.586083/

    Using two databases, COFEA (Corpus of Founding Era American English) and COEME (Corpus of Early Modern English) https://lawcorpus.byu.edu/, which compile basically all the documents written around the time the Bill of Rights was written, linguists searched for all occurrences of the words "bear" within 4 words, left or right, or "arms" to find out what the phrase "to keep and bear arms" would mean to any moderately educated American of the period.

    Eliminating sentences that obviously had nothing to do with the matter (such as "the bear tore away his arms" or "she couldn't bear looking at his arms" ... and similar) they found that only 2% related to anything other than military. And even those required a qualifier to indicate that it was not military. For example, in some state constitutions where the phrase that appears is something like "...bear arms for the defence of the state and for personal defence". With no qualifiers, the phrase always referred to a military setting. Though they mention a sign outside the church that mockingly said "Please do not bear arms inside the house of the Lord"
     
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    Many more are mislead and misinformed. Those working to erode Second Amendment rights rely on ignorance and emotion to recruit followers. Those that don't know a clip from a magazine are quick to rebleat their propaganda.

    I call it a position of convenience. From your armchair in your safe neighborhood, others should give up their rights you don't agree with. Of course, the position is not one from concern for human life. Its not like you have to see gruesome crime scenes on a regular basis. Those that do are overwhelmingly in favor of armed citizens.

    Another convenience is not going after gang members, criminals, and dangerous people. That would be dangerous, so you go after those that aren't a threat. Honest, law abiding citizens are the only ones affected by your random, thoughtless, gun laws that only provide killers with easy victims.

    When faced with real life questions about real people, you waved your smug, convenient, magical wand and granted women a Derringer. They should be grateful for such a privilege.
     
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    Historians do not need to be gun experts, and that you are confused on that point is telling.

    You haven't refuted the fact that the term 'bear arms' historically speaking, is used in a military context.

    Nothing else is relevant to that point, you are just ranting.

    What's next? Desk pounding?
     
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    ~ Americans will keep their firearms . That is their right - not a privilege.

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    What Did “Bear Arms” Mean in the Second Amendment?
    https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2016/03/04/what-did-bear-arms-mean-in-the-second-amendment/

    “Sampling the definitions of several dictionaries following the Constitution’s ratification and the Second Amendment’s addition, Cramer and Olson show that none of them have the term “bear arms” as specific to the military

    Let’s also take the word of James Wilson, who was a member of the Constitutional Convention and one of the authors of the 1790 Pennsylvania Constitution (not to mention a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice). The Pennsylvania Constitution itself makes it very clear that the term “bear arms” refers to an individual right, declaring “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned” (emphasis added).

    Wilson himself explained that this term found in the state constitution “is one of our many renewals of the Saxon regulation,” as the Saxons were bound to keep arms in defense of themselves individually and their local kingdom.

    “When the a law professor who was one of the authors of a state constitution tells you what a clause means—and explicates that ‘bear arms’ included defense ‘of their own persons’—it is best to assume that he knows what he is talking about,” Cramer and Olson note wryly. “In light of Justice Wilson’s exposition of what this right means, it is no surprise to see that there are many antebellum decisions that recognized that the right to bear arms was individual in nature (although often subject to regulation), and not specific to military duty.”
     
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    Sorry, my research was based on actual usage, not dictionary.

    The historical context of 'bear arms' is that the phrase is predominantly used in a military context:

    https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/9064/Campbell_okstate_0664M_12057.pdf

    The digitization of historical documents provides historians with the capability to determine the meaning of the right to bear arms. Nathan Kozuskanich searched “bear arms” in “120 American newspapers from 1690 to 1800” along with numerous newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides in the Library of Congress online database. He found that nearly all of the articles “use the phrase ‘bear arms’ within an explicitly collective or military context to indicate military action.” Kozuskanich concludes that Americans in the eighteenth century “overwhelmingly used ‘bear arms’ in a military sense both in times of war and in times of peace.”

    And, this is confirmed by @Golem:

    http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/english-102-to-keep-and-bear-arms.586083/

    Using two databases, COFEA (Corpus of Founding Era American English) and COEME (Corpus of Early Modern English) https://lawcorpus.byu.edu/, which compile basically all the documents written around the time the Bill of Rights was written, linguists searched for all occurrences of the words "bear" within 4 words, left or right, or "arms" to find out what the phrase "to keep and bear arms" would mean to any moderately educated American of the period.

    Eliminating sentences that obviously had nothing to do with the matter (such as "the bear tore away his arms" or "she couldn't bear looking at his arms" ... and similar) they found that only 2% related to anything other than military. And even those required a qualifier to indicate that it was not military. For example, in some state constitutions where the phrase that appears is something like "...bear arms for the defence of the state and for personal defence". With no qualifiers, the phrase always referred to a military setting. Though they mention a sign outside the church that mockingly said "Please do not bear arms inside the house of the Lord"
     
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    Late you come, yet still you come. Another loss for you. Next time you should actually read the article, you might not look so foolish.
     
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    Links, evidence?? You would never say that to any responsible gun owner in person.
     
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    Hes trying to make the cartoon script in his head translate to reality.
     
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    I'll file that in the wishful thinking file.

    You cannot refute the data.

    Too bad it makes you look foolish.
     
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    ~ It is. Obviously some want to change this.

    " A well regulated militia " in most interpretation is " we the people " . In other words a way for the common citizens to protect against a tyrannical government. This right shall not be infringed.
    Here is an article where this issue is debated :

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/big-data-second-amendment/607186/
     
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    It is all a misunderstanding. They meant you are allowed to eat bear meat. They should have said leg instead of arm.
     
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    A question for the conservative pro gun folks who say that everyone being armed makes life safer: Do you really want the woke SJW lefties who think all white people are racist and dangerous... To have guns?
     
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    As with any other right, I want them to be able to exercise theirs.
     
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    are you coming on to me?




    Haha just teasing. I think women that carry are sexy as hell. Good goin, keep it up.
     
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    Oh, I thought they were making a fashion statement, shoot 'em up with sleeveless shirts.
     
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    That's the right to arm bears
     
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    Look, I don't care but this is just bloody silly. Do you really think the Founding Fathers went to all this trouble to write up this subtle and sublime but still wondrous complicated Constitution and then put in this sort of Enabling Clause called the 2nd Amendment which says we can just murder our government employees willy nilly whenever the mailman is late? Cheez and crackers guys, just why do you think they put in elections every time you turn around anyway?

    The 2nd Amendment is like the laws in Medieval England which said that every subject of the King had to practice with the Longbow enough to hit a butt from ### paces or pay a fine. These laws paid off at Crecy and Agincourt enough that England became a Continental power, and the 2nd Amendment paid off for us at Gettysburg, Vera Cruz, the Somme and Normandy, but it is NOT meant to pay off at the Capitol or Wall Street. There is a difference between legitimate rebellion and flat out murder.
     
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