• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      So only men can own guns?

      Only men aged 18-45?

      No. Obviously not. But you demonstrably do not give a shit about the first half of the sentence, despite all this bickering. You treat the conversation as some pitched battle of tone instead of a mutual effort to find fact.

      Defining a militia only matters if you’re going to muster them, which we don’t do anymore. We might as well talk about who’s eligible to get deputized to catch fugitive slaves.

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        8 months ago

        But you demonstrably do not give a shit about the first half of the sentence

        We’ve already been through this. The first part does not limit the second part. It’s incredibly clear from the direct text, as well as contemporaneous writing of the founders who wrote it

        We might as well talk about who’s eligible to get deputized to catch fugitive slaves.

        You’re the only one bringing up militia.