Look who's demanding gun control, by David Codrea
http://www.handgunlaw.us/
http://opencarry.org/
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The term "regulated," in both its situational (i.e. "the militia") and historical (i.e. 1789-1791) context doesn't mean "buried under a shit-ton of restrictive laws, essentially transforming the right into a meaningless privilege."
Here are other words whose meanings have changed/shifted over time:
1.) cool (used to refer to temperature)
2.) bad (used to mean "the opposite of good")
3.) gay (used to have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality)
Recommended reading in re 'well-regulated':
http://www.constitution.org/cons/wellregu.htm
http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndmea.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Meaning_of_.22well_regulated_militia....22
http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals%2Ftlj42&div=45&id&page
https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=76+Chi.-Kent+L.+Rev.+291&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=6e1d6a4734adf028757cfee0c6430627
http://www.2ampd.net/Articles/Tremoglie/a_well-regulated_militia.htm
BTW, prominent "liberal" constitutional lawyers (pretty much THE biggest two names in constitutional law) Sanford Levinson and Laurence Tribe both agree with me on this. LOL, j/k. It's the other way around... I agree with /them/ on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Levinson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Tribe
My ConLaw prof at Texas Tech was good friends with Levinson and assigned his seminal article "The Embarrassing Second Amendment" to us as reading. Originally published in Yale Law Journal, Guncite reprints it with permission from Yale L.J.:
http://www.guncite.com/journals/embar.html
- Sanford Levinson (1989). "The Embarrassing Second Amendment," Yale Law Journal, v.99, pgs.637-659.
- David B. Kopel (2005:Feb.15). "The Klan's Favorite Law: Gun control in the postwar South," Reason.
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Updates:
http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/04/chicagos-pointless-handgun-ban
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/7705
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/09/bans-carrying-concealed-weapons-lifted-college-campuses/
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