"JimC" wrote in message
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Are you saying that you think that the "well regulated militia" mentioned
in the 2nd Amendment is the same thing as "the people"? Or put another
way, that the American citizenry constitutes a "well REGULATED militia."

Jim

"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. "



A well educated citizenry, being necessary for the civility of a free state,
the right of the people to gain and use knowledge, shall not be infringed.



Obviously this means that only the citizenry can use knowledge as a
collective and the use of knowledge by the individual is not a right.



Maybe, just maybe, the individual use of knowledge makes for an educated
citzenry, just as individual ownership of firearms makes for a militia. If
not we can then perhaps delegate knowledge and thinking to those selected by
the state, for the state's purpose.