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by Brett T.
Were not sure how gun control organization Newtown Action Alliance stumbled upon this piece from The Atlantic from February 2020, but it celebrates the authors’ use of “powerful 21-st century linguistic databases” to prove that the phrase “to keep and bear arms” refers to military, not individual, ownership and use.
In a linguistic review of “Bear Arms” in the 2nd Amendment, 90% of the data, the phrase “bear arms” had a militia-related meaning, which strongly implies that bear arms was generally used to refer to collective military activity, not individual use! https://t.co/x06iHeb2Ye
— Newtown Action Alliance (@NewtownAction) January 26, 2022
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