• thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    At the time, “well regulated” meant “well equipped”. And a militia is made up of regular citizens who are called up to take arms against an invader, like the minutemen. There’s nothing about a militia that implies they have any sort of formal training.

    But don’t take my word for it. Read the federalist papers, they were written by the same folks as the bill of rights and go into great detail about what they intended.