re: #238 goddamnedfrank

In the language of the times well regulated meant well or properly functioning.

I don’t know why people keep insisting it means something it clearly doesn’t in the context written. Why would the founders write that the “people’s right shall not be infringed,” if their intent was to infringe it. The well regulated militia is a predicating statement, the founder’s definition of a “free state” depending on it’s existence and the RTBA as a prerequisite for the formation of any proper militia. If the argument now is that the militia as they knew it doesn’t exist and isn’t necessary for a free state, then change the Constitution, don’t strain to misread it.

I will give you that point, but it refers to a militia, which is an organization, not just a group of armed individuals. A degree of regulation is implied there as well.