tank top = right to bare arms
Has anyone else noticed how grammatically fucked up the second amendment is?
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.
WTF? What is it trying to say?
Okay, so a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. So far, so good. But then it comes to the second comma and it all goes to hell. It's not "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", it's "the right of the people to keep and bear arms COMMA shall not be infringed". Which makes it make no sense. And it's also not "AND the right of the people to bear arms", which would separate bearing arms and a militia as two things that "shall not be infringed". It's as if that clause was just thrown in there randomly and has no connection to the rest of the sentence. Or is it that the right of the people to bear arms IS a well-regulated militia? The commas, the commas!
No wonder no one can agree on the right amount of gun laws. Maybe James Madison wrote this when he was hung over after a night of drinking and wild speechifying on Federalism with Hamilton. I really don't know. One weird comma and thousands of people die. <--- the importance of punctuation!!
*crawls back into little hole of geekery*
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.
WTF? What is it trying to say?
Okay, so a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. So far, so good. But then it comes to the second comma and it all goes to hell. It's not "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", it's "the right of the people to keep and bear arms COMMA shall not be infringed". Which makes it make no sense. And it's also not "AND the right of the people to bear arms", which would separate bearing arms and a militia as two things that "shall not be infringed". It's as if that clause was just thrown in there randomly and has no connection to the rest of the sentence. Or is it that the right of the people to bear arms IS a well-regulated militia? The commas, the commas!
No wonder no one can agree on the right amount of gun laws. Maybe James Madison wrote this when he was hung over after a night of drinking and wild speechifying on Federalism with Hamilton. I really don't know. One weird comma and thousands of people die. <--- the importance of punctuation!!
*crawls back into little hole of geekery*