[Smokin' Joe]

...nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms

Just because something has been around a "long" time, does not mean it is right.

It hasn't been so long that the rear pickup windows at the local high schools were adorned with rifle racks, generally full.

If the owners can't enter government buildings with our firearms, how come our servants can?

Conditions and qualifications? What part of "...Shall not be infringed." eludes the author?

[cripplecreek]

If they would keep the truly dangerous locked up they wouldn’t have access to guns when they choose to ignore the law.

[wildbill]

I used to be able to visit a Federal building without a search and without an ID.

Times change.

[bunkerhill7]

My family has lived the right to have guns since since 1644 under English and Dutch colonal laws which NEVER restricted any weapons-

That is the true 280 years of real practising of the right to bear and keep arms before machine guns were banned in 1922, yet from 1880`s til 1922 they were LEGAL--

There is no limit on the second amendment because there were no limits in the Colonial laws which preceded it, upon which the 2nd Amendment is based.

The colonial remnant can be seen in the 1795 federal and NY State treaties which were copies of the 1763 colonial treaties with the Iroquois Nation which guarantee firearms FOREVER on the reservation-

IT gives NO RESTRICTIONS on types of weapons or persons who can possess firearms. My cousins on the reservations know the treaties give them unlimited access to any kind of weapon.

Believe me, we have the same rights as the Iroquois Nation to have any kind of weapons we want. All these gun control craps actually violate the treaties and the Second Amendment..

[OneWingedShark]

Just because something has been around a "long" time, does not mean it is right.
It hasn't been so long that the rear pickup windows at the local high schools were adorned with rifle racks, generally full.

Or, we could go the other way: slavery has been the rule, not the exception, for the vast majority of human civilization over its recorded history — if it's been around a long time is an adequate justification then it justifies the [re]institution of slavery.