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Do you like pie peter, pie is good.
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Peter. Why are you wasting all these words?
Just say; I don't understand/like the Second Amendment, and be done with it. Simple really
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The Second Amendment's Prefatory Clause
Supreme Court of the United States
District of Columbia et al v. Heller
26 June 2008
"The [Second] Amendment's prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause. The operative clause's text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms."
"The Court reasoned that the Amendment's prefatory clause, i.e., '[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,' announced the Amendment's purpose, but did not limit or expand the scope of the operative clause, i.e., 'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.' Moreover, the prefatory clause's history comported with the Court's interpretation, because the prefatory clause stemmed from the Anti-Federalists' concern that the federal government would disarm the people..."
I think we're done here.
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