Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Teenager who shot intellectually disabled classmate was accustomed to firearms in his home [View all]bongbong
(5,436 posts)I see your point, but the statute is poorly written and could be subject to further interpretation, I suppose.
Nevertheless, it still doesn't invalidate any part of my argument. Laws and statutes are overturned all the time. Right-wingers & gun-nuts are always whining about "original intent", and Federalist Paper #29 is pretty clear that "well-regulated" means trained like an army. I have looked at the Articles Of Confederation, and the process of compromise that the Liberal states had to give to the reactionary conservative ones in order to get them to ratify the Constitution. I have several books on the history of the Constitution, and events like Shay's Rebellion and general hatred for taxes by the colonials is necessary to figure out what the Founder's "original intent" was.
It wasn't what the NRA and its acolytes think it was, and the SCOTUS agreed until the super-conservatives ruled in Heller.