• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    17·
    4 months ago

    The entirety of federalist 29 is about the second amendment. I think it’s safe to assume the paragraph I quoted from federalist 29 also is.

    Suuure it is 🙄

    Calling militias “the best possible defense” against a standing federal army seems pretty cut and dry.

    Except that’s not what the amendment itself says. That’s Alexander Hamilton’s opinion, NOT the rationale that was agreed on when drafting the text

    No mind reading necessary, just regular reading.

    And a bit of imagination to make the unconnected pieces fit together to mean what you want them to mean.

    You’re acting no better than the libertarian nutjobs who insist that taxation is theft and also unconstitutional.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      4 months ago

      If my choices are the opinion of one of the guys who wrote the amendment vs the opinion of some teenager on Lemmy, I’m gonna have to go with the former

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        15·
        4 months ago

        the opinion of one of the guys who wrote the amendment ≠ the amendment OR the reason for the amendment, which explicitly mentions the ACTUAL reason.

        That shouldn’t be so difficult a concept to grasp.