A related ambiguity is responsible for some thirty thousand deaths a year in the United States. 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.’ Each person? Or the people as a collective, as in ‘The team can have a bus’? If the founding fathers had been able to think in terms of quantificational structure, a lot of blood might not have been spilt.
