Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The meaning of the Second Amendment (One Perspective) [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)Amendment 2 specifies what government may not do.
Not just congress.
Amendment 1 specifies congress.
Amendment 2 does not.
With me so far?
Amendment 2 says that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, BECAUSE a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state.
It does NOT say, that ONLY in the case of militia members does this apply.
It says with no qualifiers, what right belongs to the people, what government may not do to that right, and spells out why government may not do that.
Its just that simple, and no amount of word salad, creative interpretation, distraction diversion or dishonesty can change that.
Beyond that, the second amendment grants no rights. It protects protects rights which belong, as the amendment states, to the people, not just the militia.
To think that amendment 2 grants the right to belong to the militia, something that congress was granted power to create and call forth previous to the writing of the bill of rights...is ignorant at best, starting with "grants a right"...
"I don't know what you think you proved, but it certainly wasn't an individual rkba disconnected from militia. Actually you provide a sophomoric argument, is all."
I don't need to "prove" anything. An individual right "connected" with militia service has never been proven, or prevailing law in America. You think amendments "grant" rights, but you dare apply the word "sophomoric" to the words of others?
Individual rights is the law of the land. Deal with it. That or Send the President an E-mail telling him hes wrong too.