[TheForge] Criminal Background Check: way OT

[Wesley Marquart]

Wrong-o again Peter...
Quit changing and trimming the definitions to suit your argument...

The following are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, and bracket in
time the writing of the 2nd amendment:

1709: "If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and
worthy Inclinations."

1714: "The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world."

1812: "The equation of time ... is the adjustment of the difference of time
as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial."

1848: "A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will
blame the Mayor."

1862: "It appeared to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine
proceeding."

1894: "The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated
American embryo city."

The phrase "well-regulated" was in common use long before 1789, and remained
so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being
in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated
correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the
people's arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd
amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that
the founders wrote it.


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"Well regulated" has a pretty specific meaning in the law.  Public utilities

are regulated.  The postal service is regulated.  Railroads are regulated. 
Trucking used to be regulated.  The fact that Militia is defined in the USC 
does *not* mean that it is regulated.  The fact that your jeep is subject to

speed limits and your deer rifle is subject (in some states) to permitting 
or registration does not make you well-regulated milita, even if you are 
militia under the statute.   The National Guard, which under that law is the

ONLY organized militia, has miles of regulations that govern it, including 
the Uniform Code of Military Justice.  That is "regulated.  

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