Here's your post # 380744 from 10/17/14 Ed:
keith: where are you? your posts are missed.
Ed, it isn't trolling to remind everyone that you are an anti-2nd Amendment troll by quoting you in your own words.
It is however trolling to post crap like this on a firearms related forum:
gary: one of the issues regarding our right to keep and bear arms is that the constitution does not define "a well regulated militia". so logically, we have to assume that the second amendment is referring to the militia, as it existed when the amendment was adopted.
now, that militia no longer exists. it has been replaced, by local and state police forces. what used to be the local militia at the local company level, became the state national guard, with regional armories. since the end of the civil war, state national guards have been transformed into ready reserve federal military units. and since 1898, those military units have been increasingly utilized by the federal government to go overseas and particapate in foreign military adventures. mean while, the closest thing that we have today to a well regulated militia is our local police force.
and to claim that all citizens who possess arms are members of the militia and as such have firearms ownership rights protected by the second amendment is wishful thinking.
and for those who argue there should be no restriction or prohibition of any class of arms, anywhere...well that is a rather selfish, self focused and unrealistic view, in my opinion....
....is a weak attempt at demagoguery.
Shall we also discuss your repeated posts where you said that the extreme anti-gun ex NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg would be a good candidate for President? Then you can tell us that wasn't trolling either.