Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan gets hung up on 'well regulated militia' language in Second Amendment

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution reads:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Apparently, former CNBC/MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan stopped reading after “a well regulated militia.”

Are you a member of a "well regulated militia" ? If not 2A doesn't apply to you. Sorry. https://t.co/pWEZ0F8XEc

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

I'd think a "well regulated militia" would register, insure and license its Arms, being "well regulated" and all. https://t.co/pWEZ0F8XEc

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

“Well regulated” is the Left’s dream phrase. They don’t bother with context.

Hmm, If your militia isn't "well regulated" than I'm afraid you might be in violation of the US Constitution. https://t.co/2S8xihWyxy

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

@NRA fight against a "well regulated militia" as a necessary precondition of the right to bear Arms violates 2A of the U.S. Constitution.

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

And you’re violating the laws of intelligence with every tweet.

I don't. Personally I find 2A vague as to what exact "Arms" (of that time?) "Well-regulated" seems very explicit. https://t.co/V23lMVmdzR

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

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Does "well regulated" also not mean what I think it does? https://t.co/VdP1vX7Tyl

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

Only if "well regulated" no? https://t.co/MxroDxAo7p

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

Right of a well-regulated militia to bear arms shall not be… Says nothing of unregulated. Doesn't define arms. https://t.co/1RP1L3A9fV

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

Well-regulated militia shall not be… https://t.co/wVZNSSUDda

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

Not my argument. 2A Constitutional Sentence construction presumes "a well regulated militia" https://t.co/CCZfareked

— Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) June 21, 2015

He went on in his rambling, but I think we get the message.