• eric@lemmy.world
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      What people? If you don’t think it’s referring to the people in a militia, you are completely ignoring the first part of the sentence. From congress.gov:

      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 doesn’t say all people. Considering the entire sentence, “people” implies nothing more than the people of a well regulated militia.

      Also, Madison was very clear that the right to bear arms was for the militia in the federalist papers.

      • JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.worldOP
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        It seems you have your mind made up, but you’re incorrect. The punctuation does a lot of work there separating the prefatory clause. The people are the same people covered in the first amendment.