California's COVID gun store shutdowns ruled illegal

[Igel]

23. No, that's what the words meant.

It's like the "C" in NAACP. It wasn't a racist term--that would be foolish. It was the neutral term that even those later called "African-Americans" used.

Language changes. We can't read Beowulf in the original English; we have serious troubles with Chaucer; Mallory is a bit easier, but really; and not just Shakespeare, but also Milton and, yes, Jefferson, or even Lincoln, sometimes eludes the bast educated.

"Well-regulated" even 200 years ago meant "well equipped and well trained." "Regulate" meant "compare and keep up to standard." Impose a rule, not "impose rule." It did *not* mean "somebody is in charge of punishing you if you step out of line." A regula was a rule. Educated people then knew Latin, probably some Greek, and perhaps some Hebrew, and "regulate" is Latinate.

(I mean, seriously, is it really saying a "In order to have a militia that is tightly controlled and limited by bureaucrats, the right to own and carry firearms shall not be subject to limiting laws by Congress"? No. That's self-contradictory gibberish. "In order to have speech that is tightly constrained by Congressional and executive mandates, free speech shall not be constrained" is on par. Not that some people don't [oddly and schizoidly] think this, but it's also gibberish. Up there with, "Please free me--here are the shackles and gag! I've been a bad boy." Now, having a well trained and equipped citizenry is clearly the driving force, but a lot of writing and even state constitutions at the time shed light on what the text meant in 1790 and why it was desirable. To understand others you must first realize that you need to see things as they see or saw them. I find that my high-schoolers think that's an insane idea. They are the metric for judging all things. Bodes poorly for the nation.)