Yes, sorry… the militia clause, as its known
The purpose of the militia is to put down insurrection, not to engage in it.
The word “regulated” has had only one actual meaning… the same as it means to regulate interstate commerce.
And only a couple of years later, the militia acts passed.
I pray you actually read what people point you too:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
Nah, I was only replying to the part about you not being a 2a supporter, showing you dont have to be, in order to support an armed working class 😀
Please read why the 14th amendment extended the bill of rights to apply to people…
I’m not keen on the 2A, based on it’s original purpose and use. I am, however, pro “Under no pretext shall arms and ammunition be surrendered, and any attempts to do should be frustrated, by force, if necessary.”
For all those reasons you named, are exactly the reasons I don’t want Dems curtailing the right to keep and bear arms.
Notice ICE focusing on low gun ownership regions?
In your case, I’d suggest considering the fact that gun laws usually have grandfather clauses, in order to pass constitutional muster (Depriving people of property, without recompense).
So, the fash will be heavily armed, and any resistance to that cannot arm themselves.
We’re not all in the same group… I’m not an ICE agent, but I am a gun toting American working class person.
In this context when they write about a well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a “free State,” they actually imply that the security guarantee is against a tyrannical state of which they had recently been at war with.
No, it doesn’t. Read Article 8, as it describes what the militia’s purpose is. At the time “the people” meant “the states”, as each state was to be secure in it’s own abilities and authorities to manage it’s militias. The purpose was to put down insurrections and slave revolts.
Remember, also, that to be “in the militia”, you were also reporting for regular muster and inspections. By the government.
No it doesn’t. The role of the militias were to be called up to put down insurrection and slave revolts.
So, you really have nothing to retort…
Tell me: Is it better or worse, that the US is not longer doing imperialism as hard in their homes?
Who is absolving Trump of anything?
Fixed that for you.
Did you, though, or just try to lie?
I mean, were Palestinians being genocided in Israel for… most of Biden’s presidency? And didn’t Harris say she fully supported Biden’s policies?
Indigenous people? They are laughing at us right now, because us white people are freaking out about stuff that’s been happening to them since white people showed up here.
Union workers? Come on, it’s not illegal for rail workers to strike in the US, thanks to Biden, who Harris, once again, said, she fully supported his policies.
Good for homeless people, as in creating more homeless people every year? Houselessness was spiking under Biden, and still is…
If Kamala Harris had won, literally all the groups you just mentioned would be far better off than under a literal fascist dictatorship which Trump’s lackeys want to establish.
How so, specifically?
Honestly? I’m starting to believe lemmy is, like reddit, filled with a bunch of clueless college kids who haven’t set foot in other parts of the world and have no idea what it’s like to live under a dictatorship, and thus take the rights and freedoms they have completely for granted.
I’m starting to think you believe the rest of the world is ok with how we treat our citizens, and do the same…
Worse for non cis people
How so, specifically, that wasn’t happening prior?
worse for women
Same. How so, specifically?
worse for education
Public education, to put in the words of Lupe Fiasco:
“Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts If you think that hurts, then wait, here comes the uppercut The school was garbage in the first place, that’s on the up and up”
Brown people in the US have always gotten the shit end of the stick, with public education.
worse for immigrants
What if I told you that Biden was deporting people at a faster rate than Trump is?
worse for people in countries being directly and indirectly threatened by your fascist president
Like, which countries? Palestine was being genocided before Trump was elected. And we’ve been raping under developed nations for a long time. Frankly, a lot of those nations are getting a break now, with Trump’s focus on turning the imperialism inwards.
It seems like it’s mostly getting worse for white, cishet people. Queer people were already under attack, and being lynched. We’ve been hammering on immigrants for like… 30 or so years now. etc etc.
My what? Are you a child?
Your beloved liberal republic here, the one that loves to genocide people, loves to be racist, loves to put dollars over humans, and loves to start wars to topple democratic societies abroad.
The reason it’s not worse for my neighbors, is because they were already under attack by your beloved liberal republic, and have been for centuries.
Worse for whom?
Things haven’t changed a bit for my indigenous neighbors. They are being fucked over just as hard now, as before…
My black neighbors have noticed just as much now as before, cops still abusing their community and their still being ignored economically.
So, worse for white people? Sure.
Every single one of those elections, the Dems chanting “us or fascism!!”
It’s kinda like the gun safety debate: we can not discuss it within 72 hrs of a mass shooting.
After 72 hrs, nobody wants to talk about it, or we have another one.
When will the Dems actually oppose fascism, instead of saying they want to?
Additionally, who is that “boring liberal republic” better for? Certainly not Palestinians. Certainly not for union workers on our rail lines. Not for people becoming houseless. Not for queer people. Not for indigenous peeps, either…
So, just for white, straight people, so we need to keep supporting it?
I was l33t, and signed up with Prodigy!
Due process includes the process of your ballot eligibility being reviewed, and then denied, based on things that are prima facie.