maura quint: It's not even hidden in the back! Put that right up front, words two and three! You get the well regulated part before you even get to the bang bang bits!

the thing that makes me want to run my head into the wall when talking to 2nd amendment fuckwits is that "well regulated" is PART OF THE GOD DAMNED AMENDMENT TEXT

It's not even hidden in the back! Put that right up front, words two and three! You get the well regulated part before you even get to the bang bang bits!

I know you know this, but n Heller, Scalia said that was "prefatory," so it didn't really matter. He literally argued the 2A is the only amendment with a "preface" and that preface is not only irrelevant but also misleading. He also claimed that "militia" meant "everyone." Originalism!

Scalia is exactly where he should be and sometimes I stomp on the ground just to make sure he hears me.

How ya doing down there, fellas?

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Every part of the Constitution was written to be concise, every word that stayed means a lot! That was binding language not fluff... but what is Originalism if not deciding the desired outcome first and warping everything until you get to it.

These types love pretending they love the text until presented with the text then suddenly it’s all vibes (they’re def the same way about the Bible)

We keep having to treat the English language like it's some form of a lost, antiquarian Sumerian dialect we're piecing back together from a marginal codex in yet another mostly lost language, but no, we literally have a whole body of knowledge about all of it and 'Originalists' don't want to use it.

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