New bill could force states to allow visiting gun owners to pack heat without a permit

[Thor_MN]

43. No, you do not get to define what I have said.

I have never said "being in a well regulated militia is the only reason the people should be allowed to keep and bear arms." Those are your words.

You used that as an ridiculous argument that people should be required to keep and carry fully automatic weapons.

You also tried to claim that "The Militia clause of the Second Amendment is simply one example of why the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.".

Which is it? You are all over the map. Can't have it both ways.

"Self defense. Hunting. Sporting. Collecting. Investment." Nothing in the Constitution about any of those, so the "shall not be infringed" that you hold so dear really doesn't give you that absolute freedom from regulation that you lust after in those endeavors.

You keep wanting to twist, pick and choose parts to get the result that you want. That is as wrong a method in law as it is in science. The fact of the words is that they all apply. The absolute "shall not be infringed" is linked to "well regulated militia". Does that be that the only a militia can keep and bear arms? Absolutely not. A militia may, but that does not exclude Joe Gunwanker from fondling his firearms every night. But the Government may pass laws regulating which weapons Joe may fondle, since he isn't in a militia.

It's not to hard to understand if one does not have a conservative true/false, black/white, binary mentality.