A well regulated militia

[stillrobertpaulsen]

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Aside from the NRA coordinating their talking points with Newt Gingrich, it's truly amazing how nine months into the Trump administration, they managed to blame the Las Vegas massacre on a black guy.

[Iamwhomiam]

Nothing new about gun control. In some form or another, it's been around since before our nation's founding.

From the Fordham Law Review - 2004

A Well Regulated Right: The Early American Origins of Gun Control

(both links to same document. I prefer the first, but the second avoids using google.)

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=4021&context=flr

https://fordhamlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/pdfs/Vol_73/Cornell_and_DeDino_November.pdf

[Karmamatterz]

Thanks for the link to the PDF. I just started digging into that. Will need to finish it up later. The historical references are great to have.

We live in interesting times. I sometimes wonder how the First Amendment will continue to be gradually made less relevant via political correct speech.