Friday, July 1, 2016

+28 (second amendment interpretation 10)

Despite what I have been writing here, don't make the mistake of thinking that the second amendment needs anything more than the simple normal understanding. How could a court see things like the segregation and prohibiting homosexuality as unconstitutional but fail at this? I don't know any non psychological reason for that.     
It is as simple as this: Assume your boss tells you (and I am borrowing this from a similar example in the Linguistic Brief):
James, being away from here, no work on the project should be done.
Or
James being away from here, no work on the project should be done (without the first comma).
A little later you see James. Would you then continue to think that no work on the project should be done? Would you think that your boss intended what he said to be taken over reality? I don't think so.
In fact your boss could have said: 
Because James is away from here... 
and you still wouldn't take that as being intended to be taken as a fact over reality.
However, the poor people who wrote the constitution even avoided this later form and you still managed to falsely accuse their intention for what could be close to a century now.      

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