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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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