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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAdam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to g
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger
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The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
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Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to g (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 25
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Irish_Dem
(73,928 posts)1. I didn't know the US still had a constitution.
News to me.
JustAnotherGen
(36,880 posts)2. Beat me to it
I intend to stick with that when the Regime falls.
Irish_Dem
(73,928 posts)4. When you come from a large Irish Catholic family you have to be quick with your jokes.
Or all your aunts, uncles, and cousins will steal the joke right out of your mouth.
edhopper
(36,621 posts)3. Exactly
no matter what the anti-constitutional SCOTUS or the gun fetish crowd thinks, the Federalist Papers clearly show the 2nd Amendment was not about individual gun rights, but about Militias to defend the States. "Well Regulated Militia" is the key phrase, not "The Right to Bare Arms" absent of any qualification.
Trump commanding the National Guard over the objections of the State's Governor, or sending one State's Guard to another without consent is grossly unconstitutional.
Not that that matters anymore.