Questions for gun control advocates, part 1

[jimmy the one]

61. beev peeved

beevul: The second amendment was NEVER anything more or anything less, than a restriction on governmental exercise of power, James.

The bill of rights was both a restriction on congress & a guarantee:

Wm Rawle, 1829, A view of the constitution, all caps in link, not my emphasis: CHAPTER X. OF THE RESTRICTIONS ON THE POWERS OF CONGRESS — AND ON THE EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES — RESTRICTIONS ON THE POWERS OF STATES AND SECURITY TO THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS

Of the amendments already adopted, the eight first in order fall within the class of restrictions on the legislative power, some of which would have been implied, some are original, and all are highly valuable. Some are also to be considered as restrictions on the judicial power.
The constitutions of some of the states contain bills of rights; others do not. A declaration of rights, therefore, properly finds a place in the general Constitution, where it equalizes all and binds all. http://www.constitution.org/wr/rawle_10.htm

beevul: Unless you can get that right, you really haven't any business throwing around labels such as "specious", unless they're directed at your own specious assertions, like the one I quoted.

Why don't you go soak your head? you can get the egg off it.