John Oliver touches on Mental Health (and mass shootings)

[Saz]

No, the people collectively are the organization. separate and distinct from the state, which is a government. Good god do you really not get the meaning of this word? It does NOT apply to the individual. For example, we the people choose our leaders. Individuals do not choose our leaders, they vote. No single individual has the power to choose their leaders, only the collective, we the people, do.

You see, one is a power and the other is merely an action, an action totally devoid of meaning without the power behind it. Anyone can choose who they want as president, but only the people actually have the legal authority to choose the our leaders. That's the clear distinction and one that is obvious in the constitution. apparently this concept is completely out of your grasp though.

Also, lol at "looking into it too deeply." Do you not realize with what care and thought the document was written? Do you truly believe the use of persons rather than people in the 4th amendment is just happenstance, scrubbers error that the founders in all their wisdom just missed? Get a f**k clue, the reason this document has survived so long is precisely because it was drafted with the utmost consideration and interpreted by the courts with such care.

Lmao that your argument is "don't read into it that closely."

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[Medius]

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I think it's funny that these guys will readily admit that "the Militia" is "all the people of a state," while not at all grasping what that means for the Second Amendment.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

It's just completely obvious what this means. The Militia is necessary for the security of a free state, and to prevent the state from being disarmed by the federal government. The right to form a Militia, regulate it, train it and discipline it belongs to the free States, and shall not be infringed. This fits in way more with what we know about the Founders than the idea that they would deliberately destroy the balance of power they spent so long setting up.

The decision to fully incorporate the Second was also just terrible. Truly a disgraceful ruling, rife with shit thinking, that will almost certainly be repealed.

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