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<blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 2227893" data-attributes="member: 7966">I don&#039;t think that is what Madison mean when he and the other framers of the Bill Of Rights wrote them.<a href="http://www.lectlaw.com/files/gun01.htm" target="_blank">The Second Amendment: The Framers&#039; Intentions</a>The words &quot;well regulated&quot; had a far different meaning at the time the Second Amendment was drafted. In the context of the Constitution&#039;s provisions for Congressional power over certain aspects of the militia, and in the context of the Framers&#039; definition of &quot;militia,&quot; government regulation was not the intended meaning. Rather, the term meant only what it says, that the necessary militia be well regulated, but not by the national government.One can argue that the Civil War made States rights dead and so the National government &quot;should&quot; assume those rights.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Catatonic, post: 2227893, member: 7966"] [B]I don't think that is what Madison mean when he and the other framers of the Bill Of Rights wrote them.[/B] [U][COLOR=#0000ff][URL='http://www.lectlaw.com/files/gun01.htm']The Second Amendment: The Framers' Intentions[/URL][/COLOR][/U] [I]The words "well regulated" had a far different meaning at the time the Second Amendment was drafted. In the context of the Constitution's provisions for Congressional power over certain aspects of the militia, and in the context of the Framers' definition of "militia," government regulation was not the intended meaning. Rather, the term meant only what it says, that the necessary militia be well regulated, but not by the national government.[/I] [B]One can argue that the Civil War made States rights dead and so the National government "should" assume those rights.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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