Thanks for sharing!

correctly right up until the right-wing John Birch Society and the NRA, with the help of ALEC and the ILA developed the marketing strategy to use fear to sell more guns for the manufacturers. The gullible public bought it hook, line, and sinker and now we have 300 million guns (or more) in our neighborhoods contributing to 30,000 deaths and 100,000 injuries per year.

It is past time to reverse this travesty, and elect Democrats who will honestly address the public health menace that guns have become, and not be afraid of the right-wing gun lobby while fixing the problem.

of the late 18th Century, as all of the document does. For 200 years it was a community right and not an individual right and as the article says, they left it up to the states to decide personal rights. The gun rights folks always say we must judge the US Constitution by looking at what states wrote in their Constitutions, when it is the other way around.

You remember Scalia, don't you? Mr. Originalist, famed for interpreting the law as if it were still 1789---except on those many occasions when it suited him to do otherwise, like in Heller. The world is a better place without him.

Federalist #29 is used quite often to show what was meant by "well-regulated" - nothing wrong there.

But the congress, in the Militia Act of 1792, indeed went with the existing practices (each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States) for composing the state militias, contrary to Hamilton's "select corps" notions. Rules of discipline/training were also mandated to ensure that they were trained/well-regulated.


Of course this did all change with the Dick Act, and the recreation of the State militias into the federal NG. That was over 100 years later.

Wholeheartedly agree the state militias are(were) govt entities, and should be well regulated (the NG today), and are NOT Bubba and his AK running around the woods.


ETA: after re-reading, that article isn't really so far off with regards to the state of the militias today, and the reduced importance of the 2nd because of it.

aids, abets and subsidizes the right.