A WELL REGULATED MILITIA

The Second Amendment to the US Constitution, one of the first ten Amendments, the Bill of Rights, written in 1788 by James Madison, is about the groups, militias, in the former colonies, the 13 States that composed the country, that fought the original inhabitants to take their land, and controlled the slave populations in the States.

Today, the Second Amendment means something else, a kind of imposed anarchy, the gun craze, the my gun keeps me free movement, which is actually a fiction, magical thinking.

Today, where are these well regulated militias for the gun crazed assault rifle people? The assault rifle of the gun crazed make survival for the victim unlikely. You get shot with one of the rounds, it tears your body to pieces, you are likely to bleed out, if wounded.

Craven politicians and the Supreme Court radicals, ask them, what about a well regulated militia applies to the Amendment now? In 1788, the right to bear arms in a well regulated militia did not imply the right to bear arms for anybody but a select group, those in a well regulated militia.

Your well regulate militia in 1788, was White guys with guns, manifest destiny, and slave management, in the colonies, then in the States. Washington and Hamilton wanted a national army, and they got it in 1796, a Federal army to replace State militias, which were out of Federal control.

Today, the country has 400, 000, 000 guns to keep America free, and no sensible federal gun laws. The present political realities, successfully imposed by reactionary Republican politicians and a Supreme Court, the politics of this moment, make the gun craze a fact of life and death here, with too few signs of cultural sanity in sight.

Outside of a well regulated militia, ban assault weapons, high capacity magazines, cut down on the carnage.

5/27/22