{"id":3314,"date":"2018-02-27T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2018-02-27T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:50:50","slug":"the-2nd-amendment-framers-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/the-2nd-amendment-framers-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2nd Amendment: Framers Intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good article that is easy for the non-lawyers to understand the intent of the 2nd amendment based on supportive documents of the time&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>QUOTE:The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: &#8220;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.&#8221; The reference to a &#8220;well regulated&#8221; militia, probably conjures up a connotation at odds with the meaning intended by the Framers. In today&#8217;s English, the term &#8220;well regulated&#8221; probably implies heavy and intense government regulation. However, that conclusion is erroneous&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lectlaw.com\/files\/gun01.htm\">https:\/\/www.lectlaw.com\/files\/gun01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ENDQUOTE<\/p>\n<p>I decided to include it here because I thought it well written.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good article that is easy for the non-lawyers to understand the intent of the 2nd amendment based on supportive documents of the time&#8221; QUOTE:The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: &#8220;A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}