{"id":1842,"date":"2016-06-25T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2016-06-25T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T14:43:48","slug":"2nd-amendment-wording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"2nd Amendment Wording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s get right to the heart of the matter, the 2nd Amendment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#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;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, listening to a Young Turks video some time ago I heard them say that each word, each punctuation was carefully considered for the Constitution and the amendments.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They did carefully scrutinize each word.\u00a0 But let&#8217;s look at that deeper here and specifically two words which the left are redefining, &#8216;Militia&#8217; and &#8216;people&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Fact it, if you are writing a sentence about a militia, you would not change the word to people in the middle of it, or even an army, for example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The militia ran towards the enemy, the people giving it all they had.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds odd.\u00a0 People would criticize the wording of the sentence.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve gone from soldiers to civilians.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never come across such a sentence where the writer changes in such a way and still means the same thing.\u00a0 Consider this sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The militia charged, the people ran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most accepted meaning here is the soldiers, militia, are running and citizens, people, are running away.<\/p>\n<p>It seems highly improbable that the founders would make such a careless error in judgment over wording, especially considering they argued over almost every word and comma.<\/p>\n<p>However liberals are changing the wording without considering how it really works simply because it fits the narrative they wish to push.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s get right to the heart of the matter, the 2nd Amendment: &#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; Now, listening to a Young Turks video some time ago I heard them say that each [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=1842\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,21],"tags":[1547,1117,1551,1552,828,1548,786,785,1549,1171,1550,1546],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals","category-politics","category-united-states","tag-2nd","tag-amendment","tag-arms","tag-civilians","tag-gun","tag-militia","tag-people","tag-rights","tag-sentence","tag-soldiers","tag-structure","tag-wording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}