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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State
Since when does the Second Amendment give this well regulated militia the right to attack schools??
It gives the government the right to regulate,
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)the rest of the Amendment. Plus, gunners and their lobbying wing spent years getting right wing Justices on the Supreme Court because guns are more important than anything to those fools.
Rustynaerduwell
(668 posts)How about "militia regulation"?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Pachamama
(16,889 posts)....have our laws be in place that reflect that....
There is no well regulated militia that should have AR-15's or military grade assault weapons.....
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Gothmog
(147,245 posts)The Heller decision is very limited https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/22/does-the-second-amendment-really-protect-assault-weapons-four-courts-have-said-no/?utm_term=.3701eda4f1b4
In each case that has reached a federal appeals court since then, bans on the semiautomatic guns known as assault weapons have been upheld, usually for the same two reasons.
Banning them, the courts have said, does not curtail the right of self-defense protected by the Constitution. There are plenty of other weapons handguns and regular long guns available to people to protect themselves.
At the same time, the courts have said, states and municipalities have legitimate reasons to ban AR-15-style weapons because of the dangers they pose, to schools, innocent bystanders and police.