Are Our Second Amendment Rights Hanging On A Comma?

Blogger News Network ^ | November 10, 2007

[goldstategop]

Our rights are God-given and implanted within us. They're not dependent on the placement of a comma for their existence.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[theothercheek]

Tell that to gun control advocates.

[tsomer]

What part of “...shall not be infringed.” do they not understand?

[Stepan12]

The term a well regulated militia being necessary... is what is known as a present participle and does not modify the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Either both parties have not mentioned it to the 2nd circuit or the 2nd circuit ignored the argument.

[ricks_place]

Many people are vulnerable to physical force; a gun in the hands of a responsible citizen is the equalizer.

[Stepan12]

I learned the hard way that our rights are enumerated — not granted.

Some stranger corrected me on the usage in public.

[tiger-one]

I always thought the comma’s in the Second Amendment, meant AND

[USNBandit]

A better question might be what does "the people" mean. If you are talking about any other part of the Bill of Rights that has been taken to mean an individual right.

Only in the Second Amendment, when interpreted by gun grabbers, does "the people" refer to some collective right.

[rwgal]

While pin heads on the Liberal side argue if a comma means that I have the right to bear arms, I have a large caliber punctuation maker they can collect.

This is what we get if we follow the road of a “living, breathing Constitution:....because when they rip one part of it out, they will rip it all apart...IF we let them.

Meadow Muffin

[goldstategop]

The Bill Of Rights just lists a few of them. Its taken for granted our rights don't come from the hand of the state. Today's Democratic Party no longer believes in individual rights. Its updated version is a collectivist set of rights given to you by power hungry and unprincipled politicians.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

There are only 2 ways to look at it:

1 The right to bear arms depends on the militia;
2 The militia depends on the right to bear arms.

How can any literate person read 2A and not see which one is the correct reading?

That said, I’m sure sorry they phrased it that way, but how could they know that 200 years of progress would make so many fools?

[TigersEye]

Are Our Second Amendment Rights Hanging On A Comma?

Wrong question. "Are Constitutional limitations preventing government from violating our right to self-defense hanging on a comma?"

Government has no power to give rights and no authority to take them. When that principle is overthrown our Constitution has been overthrown. At that point I will still be a sovereign individual and the government will be an outlaw.

[beltfed308]

IBrp. RIP.

[Beagle8U]

“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.”

“A Box of Jelly Donuts, being necessary to feed Elvis, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

It means exactly the same thing reguardless of the reason the founders gave for putting it in.

[SkyDancer]

Wonder what would happen if it went the way of Prohibition? Black market guns, right? The value of which would increase a thousand fold ... BTW, read where there are 99 guns per 100 population ... try taking them ....

[Bob]

I think they should forget the commas and look for 'original intent'.

The slightest bit of reading of the Founders' contemporaneous statements on bearing arms would instantly disabuse folks of any thought that they only envisioned the 2nd as a collective right.

[VanShuyten]

Yes, and the commas are there because it’s extra information, not the core of the sentence.

[rwgal]

Who would have thought when they wrote the Bill of Rights, that we were going to leave it up to an English teacher to interpret it..?

Meadow Muffin

[Cacique]

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