Posted on 01/02/2023 5:40:12 AM PST by DoodleBob
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 fully contextual reading of the Second Amendment tells us that the Founding Fathers protected the right to bear arms for the sole purpose of supporting a well-regulated militia to keep America free and secure. But various gun cranks and judges have dismissed that prefatory clause and read all sorts of non-original intent into the right to bear arms—self-defense, shooting government officials we don’t like, yadda yadda.
So let’s ignore the preface and focus strictly and literally on the operative clause, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. (I’m also going to ignore that erroneous comma—a comma should never separate a subject and a predicate unless there is some intervening descriptive phrase or dependent clause.)
The Second Amendment says we may have guns. It says we may carry guns.
The Second Amendment does not say we may make guns.
It does not say we may sell guns.
It does not say that we may box up a gun and mail it across state lines.
We could shut down every gun factory and store and dealer in America today and not violate the Second Amendment. We already have 393 million firearms, more than enough to allow every living American to carry a gun. If you have a gun, you can keep it. You just can’t buy any more or sell the ones you have.
Ah, but what if your gun breaks and you want another one? Or what if you grow up in a household that chooses not to bear arms but then decide when you grow up, you want to be a hero like Kyle Rittenhouse? You can’t exercise your Second Amendment right if you can’t get your hands on a gun? To keep and bear an arm, don’t you have to be able to buy a gun or build your own from bamboo, charcoal, sulfur, and diamonds?
Well, if governments are instituted among men to secure our rights, then the government can secure our Second Amendment right by producing arms—just contract Sig Sauer to crank out a few million more M17s and M18s—and distributing them at local police stations or Army recruiting offices to every citizen willing and able to carry one. No right is absolute, of course: the government can and should decline to hand free guns to people who are drunk, crazy, angry, or elsewise identifiably dangerous. But if the government ensures that every able-bodied and responsible American who desires to keep and bear an arm can get an arm, then there is no need for private, extra-constitutional gun-running.
The Second Amendment has been perverted by profit-seekers. The Second Amendment does not protect gun commerce. End gun commerce, and we’ll defuse the fear– and machismo-stoking marketing that drives our destructive gun culture.
I looked up this kook on Twitter. Everything about pronouns, weed and Libtard insanity. Guys like this who want security provided by the State are the kind who are the most surprised when the Government ushers them into camps or against a wall.
I saw the stupid comment, but really there should be a barf alert.
I despise these scumbags.
They have no idea of natural rights.
Which is what the BOA was all about. BTW the 2A does not specify any firearms at all, as it is about “weapons”, not just firearms.
Not even close.
Read this: http://www.grifent.com/docsLinks/docs/2ndEnglishLesson/SecondAmedEnglishLesson.html
And this: http://www.grifent.com/docsLinks/docs/second.htm
Not even close.
Read this: http://www.grifent.com/docsLinks/docs/2ndEnglishLesson/SecondAmedEnglishLesson.html
And this: http://www.grifent.com/docsLinks/docs/second.htm
Women were not in the militia. Women were allowed to keep and bear arms. Because, though not part of the militia, as citizens they were part of The People.
This JA Cory Allen Heidelberger writes this blog (and proudly advertises that fact)
which transitioned (ahem) into Dakota Free Press.
He’s a menace and uses religion to promote his perversion (I believe his wife is a Lutheran pastor). The irony is that he proclaims to be an anti-globalist.
Lose the Second Amendment and the First Amendment will be the next to fall, and very quickly.
You’re in excellent company.
Noah Webster, the famous American lexicographer of dictionary fame, said, “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any presence, raised in the United States.”
The stupid burns on this article, never defines arms or types of arms we the people can have or keep.
The barrier is glass, I GOT A HAMMER!
The last time I checked, GOD GAVE ME THOSE RIGHTS; the Bill Of RIGHTS just put the list on paper!
It’s really not all that much more stupid than the interpretation that WON in a state supreme court in the Caetano case. The main argument they brought to the US Supreme Court was that the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to modern technology. They lost, but it’s pretty amazing that it got so far.
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