Virginia Tech anniversary creates difficult moment on gun control for lawmakers

[Atypical Liberal]

22. Nope.

You're telling me that the Courts just struck down an entire phrase of the United States Constitution wholesale?

No, not at all.

The courts recognize that the point of the second amendment was primarily a deterrence to federal tyranny. As such, it is more important for the arms to be in the hands of the people, and not in the hands of a government institution.

This is undoubtedly why the amendment specifically says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and not the right of the states, or the right of the militias.

The Courts and the President did not strike down the phrase, they simply realize that you don't need militias in order to keep the right to keep and bear arms.

The militias need the armed people, but the armed people don't need the militias.

And I ask you again:

Why did the founders continue the decentralized, state-run militia system instead of a centralized militia under the control of the federal government?