Y.es, throwing your core customers under the bus has always been a good strategic moved in a highly-competitive market place. God forbid we would expect a business supported by gun owners to take a principle-based and a freedom-based stand. [Read]
Of course, prognostications of a financial genius move notwithstanding, we are dealing with a commentator/analyst who believes:
As for glossing over "well regulated," no we don't. Some of us, who have actually read the Federalist Papers, know exactly what was intended:
Of course, prognostications of a financial genius move notwithstanding, we are dealing with a commentator/analyst who believes:
Yes, the Second Amendment does grant the right to bear arms, but gun advocates always seem to gloss over the phrase "well-regulated militia." The founding fathers were wise to include that language.Or at least he says he believes it . It's tough to think anyone still buys into that "grant" lie after it's been debunked so many times, including and by no less than the Supreme Court, so my guess is the writer knows better but doesn't want his readers to.
As for glossing over "well regulated," no we don't. Some of us, who have actually read the Federalist Papers, know exactly what was intended:
"The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of being carried into execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose 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 a 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 [emphasis added]; 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.And yes, the founders were wise. How wise may astonish some.