Monday, June 27, 2022

Founding Document Basics...

This is for those least likely to read it...


Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...” is as close to health care as anything included in the Declaration of Independence, and yet SCOTUS declared that women can't have it.


FYI... Medicines, shipped by US mail, are protected against any and all interference by federal law.


2nd Amendment enthusiasts, who have no idea what is actually written in said amendment, would skip over the first four words (“A well regulated militia”) to get to where their imaginations think the word, “gun,” is mentioned...


Keep and bear arms,” in the 18th century (when the document was written, and not amended at all since then) means to possess the weapons one would bring when called to service in the government's (British aristocracy or American democratic republic) militia. The 18th century weapons included: pikes (variation on a spear), bow and arrow, sword and fire arms (black powder, muzzle loading, single shot, musket and/or pistol), and (for those who could afford it) a black powder, muzzle loading, single shot, rifle.


Fire arms, not guns; guns didn't exist when the document was written, and it hasn't been amended since then.

 

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