When you answer the meme’s question, which you’ve avoiding, because it blows your entire argument out of the water, You’ll know the answer to your own question here.
What I was saying before. You quoting from what amounts to an OP-ED about a book doesn’t actually prove anything you claim.
Your claim: There is no individual right to bear arms because the words “well regulated”.
Reality: the second clause, is not a dependent clause, and completely nullifies your entire argument, in plane, elementary English.
He did makes his argument. I’m not even a native English speaker and understand dependent vs. independent clauses. I believe there is even a sentence diagram in the Heller opinion.
Regarding your “point” that law students and academics didn’t write about 2A, well, as a former Harvard Law Review editor (alas, a mere Associate Editor – I graded on and was not a cool kid) that would be because lawyers and especially law professors are overwhelmingly pathetic liberals. If you wanted to get published, a pro-2A student note would not be your topic of choice. You’d get blacklisted. Mine was about warning labels and the wisdom (or lack thereof) of having them in foreign languages.
Super-sexy stuff, but I was told, in no uncertain terms, that I was racist to argue that you should not have 154 languages on a warning because you ended up with a book that no one read. I changed what I wrote to something absurd and got my “A” and my federal judicial clerkship.
You won’t even answer the question, and we know why you won’t, don’t worry. So cry victim because I wasn’t nice to you…
You attack freedom, and I’m not inclined to be nice about it. You have by attacking the 2nd. You refuse to answer the very simple question in the meme, because it proves I’m right.
So play victim, but know that zero people here see through your silly diversion away from answering the simple question.
The problem with this argument is that it runs exactly counter to the history of heterodox 2A scholarship. That is, for the first 200-odd years of the Constitution’s existence–a span which, presumably, included periods during which law professors were not “overwhelmingly pathetic liberals”–there was essentially no 2A scholarship conducted. (We could call this the Lost Amendment period of the 2A.) It is only in the last ~30 years that the ‘overwhelmingly pathetic liberal law professors’ have advanced what they (ironically) call the Standard interpretation of the 2A. So your conjecture seems unmoored from the facts.
Dude, you misunderstand. I’m not playing victim–I’m claiming victory. I said you would stop arguing and start attacking me, and that’s exactly what you’re doing. Trust me when I say there’s no sense of being a victim on my part.
Lol guess we’ll have to call it a difference of opinion. Everything that was said gave me zero cause to consider the FFs intentions for any reason. Oh well
You’re avoiding a simple question, over and over and over, and claim victory?
lol.
Okay chief. Whatever helps you sleep at night. My meme blows your entire argument out of the water, and you’ve avoiding it because you know that. Otherwise you wouldn’t have tried the pathetic “I’m 54 years old” nonsense and just answered the question.
And just for you:
Run along you anti-rights commie. I’m done with your pathetic meandering.