Massachusetts’ law prohibiting the possession and sale of some semiautomatic weapons commonly used in mass shootings is acceptable under a recent change to Second Amendment precedent from the US Supreme Court, a federal judge said Thursday.
“To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purposes of going through military exercises and evolutions,as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia,would be a real grievance to the people, and serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country… to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise, and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.”
to oblige the great body of the yeomantry, and of the other classes of citizens, to be under arms for the purposes of going through military exercises and evolutions,
Weird you highlighted right after the states purpose.
would be a real grievance to the people, and serious public inconvenience and loss.
And stopped before the fun parts. Literally the rest of that sentence, lol.
Also you left out the commitments by the same methodology.
and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.
When you do this, it seems like haven’t read the Federalist Papers, just found parts in them that align with your view. I’m sure that’s not true, but it’s what it seems like.
This paragraph just straight up does not mean what you’re implying it means
“To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purposes of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country… to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise, and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._29
Weird you highlighted right after the states purpose.
And stopped before the fun parts. Literally the rest of that sentence, lol.
Also you left out the commitments by the same methodology.
When you do this, it seems like haven’t read the Federalist Papers, just found parts in them that align with your view. I’m sure that’s not true, but it’s what it seems like.
This paragraph just straight up does not mean what you’re implying it means