Mike McIntire
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first heard Jul 2026
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He called these the misjudged exaggerations of a counterfeit zeal.
rather than the sober apprehensions of genuine patriotism.
And what he was basically saying was that, you know, enough with the phony outrage because it's getting in the way of considering reasonable policies, which he thought in the end the Constitution and the Second Amendment would achieve.
And it's pretty clear from just the wording of the Second Amendment that the intended purpose was to preserve the militia.
And there was reason to believe that even at that time, the founders viewed bearing arms for different purposes and in different ways.
Some state constitutions preserve the right also to bear arms for hunting or self-defense.
Others did not.
Madison and Congress were aware of this when they wrote the Second Amendment and yet chose not to include that and simply leave it as the purpose being a well-regulated militia.
I mean, it talks mainly about the militia.
It doesn't really go any further than that.
And so you only really begin to see the bearing of arms as a right articulated in the Bill of Rights, not in the Constitution itself.
I always found it interesting that some state constitutions did have both a bearing of arms right for the militia and other purposes.
I think it's important to note that this isn't to say that the founders didn't believe that people didn't have a right to have a musket for self-defense or hunting or other purposes.
They just didn't see those purposes as being existential in the same way that the militia was.
So Second Amendment advocates today, gun rights advocates, would argue that an individual right is probably just self-evident in the Second Amendment because how could you be expected to have a gun for a militia participation if not then also being able to use it for other purposes?
And if the purpose of the Second Amendment was only to really safeguard the ability of people to come together for a militia, which that idea has been defunct for over a century—
then states and localities would have an easier time imposing limits on guns.
But if the Second Amendment also included an individual right for non-militia purposes, that becomes a huge speed bump, if not a roadblock, for states and local governments to do anything.
So Congressman Dingell, who succeeded his father in that seat in Michigan, was raised in a family that was comfortable with guns.
And he was a young member of the NRA as a kid.
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