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[beevul]

262. Since you want to play the "quote a justice" game...

“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”

Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court 1943

"On the Right to Arms of Military Utility and the 2nd Amendment The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."

Justice Joseph Story

And this from Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1856:


"It would give to persons of the negro race, ...the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, ...to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased ...the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went."

"I've shown that the concerns raised were that Congress could abuse it's powers over the militia and destroy the militia through neglect."

You may or may not have shown that, I really haven't paid attention to whether you have or haven't...because it doesn't matter.

Amendment 2 protects the possession, ownership, and lawful carry of firearms, with no respect to whether an individual is a militia member or not, because the militia "is composed of the body of the people", and is "necessary to the security of a free state".

The supreme court agrees, its binding law, your side lost.

Get over it.