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(269,054 posts)ReTHUGs don't give a flying fugg about the Constitution.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)They might take out these letters:
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.
But then, they do that already...
lastlib
(23,247 posts)"A well-regulated militia (comma) being necessary to the security of a free state (comma) the right of the people to keep and bear arms (COMMA) shall not be infringed."
They don't like 'em because they denote "A well-regulated militia" as a superior clause, thus the subject of the sentence. They want the sujbect to be "the right of the people to keep and bear arms", which is really a subordinate clause. Those two commas change the whole logic of the sentence, and the GOPee bullet-heads cannot stand it.