A Talk on Gun Control

Thank you folks for letting me speak tonight. "Is there a gun in the house?" I am here to talk about the most cherished and sacred rights blessed on us by our fathers, and it's all in the "comma".

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language says a "comma" is:

  1. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate a separation of ideas or of elements within the structure of a sentence.
  2. A pause or separation.

Our Supreme Court needs to look at the time when this Second Amendment was written and what meaning words and punctuation had then. If you read the Second Amendment, as one would have done in 1791, which reads: "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." You would see the USE of "commas" clearly "separates (the) ideas" and the intent.

Read it this way:
"A well regulated militia, COMMA, (one thought)
being necessary to the security of a free state, COMMA, (one thought)
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, COMMA, (one thought)
shall not be infringed." (one thought).

The idea that this Amendment is ONLY for a States right to form a militia is just totally preprostous. How do you form a militia without a GUN!? Then you have to decide WHO gets to own, or have, THAT gun?

One needs to look to one group in our past, and that is the "Minute Men". They were a "militia" but not formed by a State, THERE WERE NO STATES in 1759 during the French and Indian War, or on the Lexington Green the morning of April 19, 1775, (the shot that was (and still is) heard around the world).
The American Heritage Dictionary says a "militia" is:

  1. An army composed of ordinary "citizens" rather than professional soldiers.
  2. A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in an emergency.

King George III lamented that "I should never have let the Colonists have guns." AFTER we won the War of Independence, with a gun, not words. NEVER FORGET THAT.

What is different today is we have hundreds of thousands of professionally trained X soldiers that fought for those freedoms liberals want to take away. Folks, IT'S OUR HISTORY, it's not only what our "Founding Fathers" wrote but it is the way they phrased things, and said things, it matters NOT what or how they "interpret" those same things today.
Example, "militia" is now the "National Guard", "supper" is now dinner and "dinner" is now lunch. Why is it when liberals say words have meaning they seem to NOT apply it to the time when those words were written. A State could not form a "militia" if it's citizens had NO weapons, of ANY KIND.

What you really need to look to is the Forth Amendment which I will not go into, but it talks about "unreasonable searches and seizures." If the Supreme Court decides that a citizen can not own a gun they will have to deal with that Amendment and how to take the guns away from the guy that has "that loaded gun."

Deward Cummings
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Lockhart TX 78644
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