Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal software developer

Re:Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal sof... by bitJericho on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:19PM (#14916452)

Yes. The second amendment is using the comma as an "and". It means that we have the right to both a well regulated militia and for the citizenry to own and bear arms. It is not for the purposes of conscripting the citizenry into some militia. It is intended for the citizenry to defend themselves, against tyrants and assailants.

If the second amendment was just about having a well regulated militia, then they would not have mentioned the second part about citizens bearing arms.

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Re:Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal sof... by vacri on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:14AM (#14916912)

The comma is "just an 'and'"?

> A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state and the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

It's a garbage sentence.

Also, there isn't a 'first part' and a 'second part', because "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" is not a complete sentence.

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Re:Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal sof... by bitJericho on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:22PM (#14921587)

The sentence means this:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, shall not be infringed.

The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, being necessary to the security of a free State, shall not be infringed.

The comma acts as an "and", to combine two different but similar rights

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Re:Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal sof... by eswoo on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:46PM (#14924203)

But how do you infringe on a militia? Only one right is actually mentioned here; nothing is said about a right to a militia.

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