Reply #130: Exactly, and well regulated means well functioning = most effective. The whole idea to limit the [View All]

[jmg257]

need for a large Standing Army. Well regulated, as Hamilton describes, is best accomplished through training, and common standards of training & organization, standard & effective arms, etc., which is why the powers to come up with those standards were given to the feds. Luckily, the framers were REALLY smart, and saw how a usurption of that power could be used by tyrants to disarm the people. The Militia and our role in the Militia is so important (necessary for freedom), that it is a primary reason why the right to arms was explicitly secured for the people; like all the private rights enumerated in the BoR (and those which aren't) - to protect our rights from a tyrannical govt and from an overbearing majority.

You can keep parsing words to try to limit our unalienable rights, but you won't change the facts.