Reference: Course on Subject Clearing
This is my first foray in applying Subject Clearing to the social issues in USA. Here are the two relevant posts that I wrote on this Facebook thread:
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I am simply trying to understand the gun controversy, and I don’t understand why the purchase of assault weapons by the general public cannot be banned. Some people give the reason for that to be the second amendment which is as follows:
“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.”
As I understand it, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms is specified in the context of a well-regulated Militia. When I further look at what the constitution says about Militia, I find Article 1, Section 8 which is as follows:
“To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.”
From this I conclude that the right of the people to keep and bear Arms is to help the State execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions. Anything else is just an additive.
People may keep guns for personal protection and for recreational purposes. The constitution does not say anything about it one way or the other. So, the constitution cannot be used to argue for that particular use of guns. That would just be a matter of what is best for the society, and it would be a different argument.
So, in my opinion, the Constitution cannot be used to justify the use of guns for personal protection and for recreational purposes. But, one may use cultural and moral values of the society to decide what is best for it in this matter.
This is not the “originalist” view of what it meant in 1789. Nor this has anything to do with the view that constitution is an evolving document.
The above is what “subject clearing” tells me. It is seeing what is in the plain sight.
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If you want to protect US citizens from the tyranny of the US Government, then you need the US army on your side. Militias cannot protect you. You have to be insane to believe that to be the purpose of Militias.
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