My rebuttle to this asinine statement:
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
What part of this is so hard to understand?
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
What do they not understand? We, the citizens of America are the militia and it is our duty to secure our free state.
Sorry, but color codes or security checks at the airport does not make it.
It might also interest idiot liberals to consider that each and every time the words "the people" is used in the other articles of the Bill of Rights, it is used to describe an individual right.
Now, why would the Founders, notoriously meticulous and careful writers, mean something different when they wrote "the people" in the Second Amendment?
And that's not even to discuss the wealth of evidence in the records of the debates and the Founders other writings to support the "individual right" position.
And besides, since when does the left give a shit about textual interpretation of the constitution? Watching them contort themselves around a few phrases in a lame attempt to make their case is almost painful and embarrasing, since we know they couldn't care less about the written consitution, supporting, as they do, such abominations as Roe v. Wade which bears no resemblance to the written constitution.
Seems to me if this only applied to a militia that is where the wording would stop, as in "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the militia to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." But, being a thinking man, I would say the addition of "the right of the people" pertains to every citizen.
--Boris
No part of it is hard to understand. The people of the time when that was written kept and bore arms in their homes. Had it not been for that, the Revolution would have been a small riot that ended in greater British oversight and presence in the colonies - not an American nation. Those people kept and bore arms in defense and for action as needed as well as for hunting. Liberal argumentation on the matter dominates in ignorance of the truth.