You're wrong here. I was commenting on your short post and the short post of another user that made nearly exactly the same comment within a pretty short time period.

This is you.

'A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed.'

Whose rights shall not be infringed here, the breakfast's or those of the people?

This is the other guy.

"A well-balanced breakfast, being necessary to the health of a free State, the right of the people to keep and use Toasters, shall not be infringed."

Who has the right to keep and use toasters? The people, or the well-balanced breakfast?

Looks like a bullshit example that makes an apples to steam engines comparison employed by two posters shilling for the same reason - support of a conclusion they both believe in.

You don't know me. You will never know me.

You totally misunderstood that I was pointing out that your bullshit example looks a lot like a poorly formed drunk asshole's talking point that some illiterati group has contrived to be used on uninformed, semi-literate readers every time they find someone challenging something about the second amendment.

You did a better job with your other post laying out all those quotes from contemporaries who were actively involved in deriving the final language of the amendment. I do think that you could have improved that by adding context, like the other side of the conversation, for example. It isn't unusual though for people to cherry-pick anything that fits their desired conclusion so I am not surprised.

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That other fellow more or less cloned my comments after half an hour, I have no idea why.

This doesn't make the underlying English analysis inaccurate: the prefatory clause does not somehow restrict the rest of the sentence.

> You don't know me. You will never know me.

I'll continue manufacturing firearms, and you'll continue being able to do nothing about it.

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		I called you a parrot in a reply to that guy since he only spent the time to downvote my reply. I was wrong in that reply to him if you were the first to post that bullshit example that I was calling out in my reply to both of you. Please accept my apology. He was obviously the parrot and since he didn't reply he's probably the laziest parrot ever. >This doesn't make the underlying English analysis inaccurate: the prefatory clause does not somehow restrict the rest of the sentence. I'm pretty sure that you think I argued that the "A well regulated militia, ..." had been interpreted wrong or that I disagreed with it. That was you misinterpreting my reply in which I merely pointed out that two posters, one of them you, had used the same bullshit example in their reply to a different poster at nearly the same time. I thought that interesting since we all know HN threads get overrun by people on other topics when those topics are (geo)political. >I'll continue manufacturing firearms, and you'll continue being able to do nothing about it. I'm not sure why you think I give a flying fuck at a bird's ass what you do with your time, resources, and energy. We both know that there is a long tradition of gunsmithing in this country dating back well before the Revolution. You are continuing a tradition that predates our republic, one that was vital to our ancestor's success on the frontier. Is it necessary for citizens to be able to work with local gunsmiths today? Of course it is just as it was back in the day. I was just pointing out that the self-portrait that you painted with that bullshit example wasn't as flattering as you might be thinking. I noted that you had done a better job in a different post though your bias still shined brightly. Hopefully you can understand that your arguments will be stronger when you argue in good faith using comparisons that make sense to the audience instead of bullshit examples that sound like a team of drunk assholes picked the one that made them think the longest until the first guy chuckled, someone farted, and the rest of them ROFL. I appreciate you sticking with this. I feel like you have a bright future. I'm no expert though so don't read too much into any of this.

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