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Words have meaning.

podrock — 5/28/2022 3:46:28 AM (archived)

"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."

The guys who wrote this were smart. They knew how to write. They knew to put the important part first in a sentence. As you so well point out, the SCOTUS inverted it.

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America needs to look at gun laws in civilised countries and learn from them - Pebble - 5/25/2022 10:17:10 PM
- GOP death-cult - RL - 5/28/2022 8:34:01 PM
- America is a gun by Brian bilston - Pebble - 5/27/2022 9:47:53 AM
- Oh, we looked... - RL - 5/26/2022 11:57:22 PM
  - Oh I know what it’s like alright - Pebble - 5/27/2022 9:45:12 AM
  - fetish: - podrock - 5/27/2022 2:02:54 AM
    - FFS - RobVG - 5/27/2022 7:17:29 PM
      - you'll note that that picture - podrock - 5/27/2022 8:11:54 PM
  - I don't want to think about it any more. - ER - 5/27/2022 1:47:40 AM
    - Your concluding sentence. - podrock - 5/27/2022 2:08:31 AM
      - They are making us just like them. - ER - 5/27/2022 2:40:49 AM
        
        Except in our case it is out of self defense - RL - 5/27/2022 5:04:37 PM
        
        Maybe we should arm ourselves? - ER - 5/28/2022 1:04:11 AM
        
        Yup. Or trying to. - podrock - 5/27/2022 2:57:05 AM
  - Not Hyperbole. - podrock - 5/27/2022 1:41:04 AM
- Its not going to work. - ER - 5/26/2022 2:37:51 PM
  - Things are changing. - RobVG - 5/26/2022 8:27:51 PM
    - Pointless pandering to the media circus - Pebble - 5/27/2022 9:50:31 AM
      - You don't understand the enormity of these laws. - RobVG - 5/27/2022 7:52:59 PM
      - So what are you saying? - RobVG - 5/27/2022 7:41:52 PM
        
        Without prohibition of possession the laws re purchasing are not enough - Pebble - 5/27/2022 8:38:58 PM
        
        Yeah, that ain't going to happen either. - podrock - 5/27/2022 10:42:15 PM
        
        IT IS NOT IN THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION. - ER - 5/28/2022 1:19:53 AM
        
        What hurts my brain - podrock - 5/28/2022 4:26:43 AM
        
        Words have meaning. - podrock - 5/28/2022 3:46:28 AM
        
        Inversion - podrock - 5/28/2022 4:34:31 AM
        
        Its not a question of legal interpretation of historical texts. - ER - 5/28/2022 12:54:15 PM
    - There's a lot of things we could do to make things better. - ER - 5/26/2022 8:56:22 PM
  - Exactly. - podrock - 5/26/2022 4:17:48 PM
    - Gun deaths in America - ER - 5/26/2022 6:03:13 PM

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