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(06-16-2016, 05:16 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: If that was the case then the 2nd half of the amendment wouldn't have been put in. It distinguishes the two groups (militia and people). It's for the ability to have a militia, and the individual right to bear arms.

I don't like derailing threads and this one is about jokes, so I'll just make one last comment and leave it at that. If you'd like a response, I'd be happy to PM or go to a gun control thread. Anyway...

There isn't a second half of the amendment. It's not really even the second half of a sentence. One sentence, same subject. If they had wanted to differentiate between subjects they would have used a period or semi colon, as they did in the First and Fifth. Instead, they used a comma to let you know they were talking about the same thing; only with a comma, you insert them at times — or an em dash — to let people know you're interjecting a thought about the same subject, as opposed to the semi colon to let you know it's a different subject within the same sentence.