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On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 17:16:43 -0600, "Attila Iskander"
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On Feb 1, 11:42 am, harry wrote:
On Feb 1, 3:22 pm, George Washington
wrote:

HeyBub wrote:
Regulated - Functioning according to standards, i.e., a weapon that
works.


We would have said "a well APPOINTED" or "a well EQUIPPED" militia - if
that's what we intended.


But we said "a well regulated" militia - meaning that it was those that
possessed the arms that we were intending to regulate.


In my book "regulated" means organised and disciplined.
ie not a rabble. Which is what you have today.

#
# What regulated means or doesn't mean to you is irrelevant.
# What matters is what it meant in the time period the second
# ammendment was adopted and how it's been interpreted by
# courts since.


In the word of idiots like harry, it's ONLY what they "think" that is
meaningful
Facts are not
Inconvenient facts even more so.


Well, we've all known that harry and Dumbie are queens. Now we know
they're red.