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Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
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Sun, 16 May 1999 17:17:23 GMT
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cjc@%saynotospam%newsguy.com
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 1999 19:30:38 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
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> > The LP had a pretty good PR release recently. Paraphrasing... suppose
> > other amendments were as watered down as the 2nd? Each of these is a
> > parallel to a existing law that regulates the acquisition or ownership
> > of guns. Fortunately, each is currently sarcastic rather than true.
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> What does "well regulated" mean, in the context of the Second Amendment?
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> Seriously.
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> "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."
Depends on which definition of regulate you want to accept, I suppose.
'Course, you also have to try to understand what the founders might
have meant by it, something a lot of people don't want to do if it
doesn't fit their side of the argument.
From www.dictionary.com:
Regulate \Reg"u*late\ (-l[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regulated
(-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Regulating.] [L. regulatus, p. p. of
regulare, fr. regula. See Regular.] 1. To adjust by rule, method, or
established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to
governing principles or laws.
The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. --Macaulay.
The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and
regulated their own police. --Bancroft.
2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a
nation or its finances.
3. To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or
condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of
steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
To regulate a watch or clock, to adjust its rate of running so that it
will keep approximately standard time.
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| (...) What does "well regulated" mean, in the context of the Second Amendment? Seriously. "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." Steve (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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