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In reply to the discussion: I no longer give two f*cks about your 2nd Amendment rights. [View all]Squinch
(50,956 posts)sign and opposed the ratification of the Constitution, no less.
Then you give us your own opinion as if it were fact, and that's your other evidence.
As to your assumption that "the people" must mean the same thing in every place in the Constitution, there is no reason to believe that, any more than there is any reason to believe that "the State" means the same thing every time it is used. Clearly "the state" means very different things in different parts of the constituition, so there is no reason to assume "the people" means the same every place it is used.
And all that aside, there are slaughters every day now in the US. Are you seriously advocating keeping the current Scalia-defined interpretation of the VERY DEBATABLE text of the 2A that DIRECTLY leads to those slaughters?
And Teddy, you never answered my question: when you challenged me on how I would reduce gun deaths, I gave you a rather detailed description of my plan. I asked you to return the favor. You never replied. And then I asked again, and STILL you never replied. Could it be that you got nothing?