Rights are not rights if the can be infringed for no reason at all by any government body at all. You're reading of the Second allows states to disarm the people for no reason at all. Logically it also allows them to deny them life, liberty or property for no reason or any reason at all.
Do you honestly think this is what the folks signed on to?
Forget incorporation doctrine and SCOTUS opinions. Do you really think early Americans fresh off a war fought with tyranny would sign on to such a notion?
Look, the document should be read through the eyes of "We the people", not we the founders of we the framers or we the masons.As in “
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.
Forget incorporation doctrine and SCOTUS opinions. Do you really think early Americans fresh off a war fought with tyranny would sign on to such a notion?I know how I would answer that question – But then I support an Individual's right of self-defense.
In 1789, the first year the Bill of Right was being debated and rewritten, Pennsylvania had a requirement that its citizens must take an oath of allegiance to the state in order to be allowed to bear arms.