I am an originalist on the 2nd.
If a state has a well regulated militia, necessary to defend said state, then the government can not infringe on the right to own arms.
You might be an originalist but that's not what it says. You've added words to it that aren't there. Do I need to quote it here again so you know what it actually says?
I appear to be the only originalist here because I believe they said exactly what they meant.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
"well regulated militias" include police protection, fire brigades, ambulance services, state troopers, the national guard, the coast guard, and all the branches of the armed forces.
They are indeed
necessary to the security of each free state and to the United States.
Back then it meant armed volunteers, basically it still does.
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
No ifs and or buts, it says what it says.
Because you never know when your gonna need a bunch of armed men, men must be allowed to have arms.
That's all it says. But it's the goddam
Constitution where rights are laid out and that one is laid out pretty clearly.
And once again I ask you to focus on the
well regulated part(which stubbornly has no hyphen in a hyphen-philiac spellchecker)
Just as the Constitution grants the people the right to keep arms, it claims the right to regulate the arms and the people.
