text: Youse guyz - you always leave out the first part.
  
  Why IS that?
  
  "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state . . . "
  
  I could Google around and show stuff about how Tom Paine, slaveholder, got the word "state" in there to replace "nation" and moved a few commas around so he could keep his slave-chasers armed without a problem. 
  
  Mr. McCloud is calling the Christians out on some hypocrisy,  and GBA came back with the usual pat answer.  I'll leave that one to the ladies.
  
  Anyhow, the Supremes in the McDonald case left plenty of what you guys call restrictions in place.  Clarence Thomas even used the word "privilege" in a sentence.
  
  Scary, huh?