Main

type

5

status

21

review version

0

cleanup version

0

pending deletion

0

created at

2025-10-06 04:42:06

updated at

2026-01-10 12:31:07

Address

url

https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/the-2nd-amendments-misconstrued-militia

url length

77

url crc

49603

url crc32

3449012675

location type

1

canonical status

10

canonical page id

2690376829

Source

domain id

20790986

domain tld

2211

domain parts

0

originating warc id

-

originating url

https://data.commoncrawl.org/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2025-33/segments/1754151568464.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20250813121442-20250813151442-00176.warc.gz

source type

11

Server response

server ip

104.18.37.200

pubdate

2025-07-18 07:39:16

attempts

0

size orig

248992

size saved

116922

Content

page id

2690376829

title

excerpt

content

America’s latest episode of mass homicide has sparked renewed advocacy for restrictions on gun ownership. Once again, the accompanying debate has many gun control advocates claiming the Second Amendment’s reference to a “well regulated militia” narrows the amendment’s scope if not rendering it altogether moot. Before we examine those claims, it’s important to ensure readers have a proper general understanding of the Bill of Rights. Contrary to common misperception, these amendments do not bestow privileges upon American citizens. Rather, they are primarily a set of prohibitions against the government infringing on pre-existing human rights all people have. That’s evident in the language. For example, the First Amendment begins “Congress shall make no law…” This amendment isn’t awarding citizens the rights of religion, speech and assembly — it’s outlawing the government’s thwarting of those innate and universal human rights. Similarly, the Fourth Amendment asserts that “the right of t...

author

Brian McGlinchey

updated

1769263264

Text analysis

block type

0

extracted fields

36

extracted bits

article author
full content

detected location

0

detected language

1 (English)

index version

1

paywall score

0

spam phrases

0

Text statistics

text nonlatin

0

text cyrillic

0

text characters

8065

text words

1555

text unique words

627

text lines

167

text sentences

42

text paragraphs

26

text words per sentence

37

text matched phrases

1

text matched dictionaries

3