"Alan Gomes" wrote in message
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JimC wrote:


Robert Musgine wrote:

The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as
futile as it would be injurious if it were capable of being carried into
execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business
that requires time and practice. It is not a day, nor a week nor even a
month, that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great
body of the yeomanry and of the other classes of the citizens to be
under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and
evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of
perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well regulated
militia, would be a real grievance to the people and a serious public
inconvenience and loss.
--- The Federalist Papers, No. 29.

Bob, one thing is quite clear from the wording of the Amendment itself. -
It's that however you define the term "militia" (and most jurists and
case law consider it to refer to Article I militias) it is a well
REGULATED militia. - Strange how that principle is so often ignored.

Jim

Jim,
And one other thing that is quite clear from the wording of the Amendment
itself. - It's that however you define the term "regulated," it does not
include infringing on the peoples' right both to keep and to bear arms.
Strange how people who want to seize on the word "regulated" as a pretext
for infringing on the right both to keep and to bear arms so often ignore
that.
--AG

Exactly true, sir! One only has to examine the definition of regulate. Well
regulated means to regulate well and to regulate means to govern or direct
according to rule, to control and to bring under the control of law or
authority and to put in good order.

It can be clearly seen that a well regulated militia has nothing whatsoever
to do with limiting the personal right to keep and bear arms. Rather, people
MUST have a right to keep and bear arms in order for there to be a
well-regulated militia. A militia without arms is no militia. Certainly not
a well-regulated militia.

Wilbur Hubbard