[Peter ODonnell]

There will always be a boundary, I don’t think the second amendment gives citizens the right to own a nuclear weapon for example.

[DuncanWaring]

“...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...”

If ordinary citizens don’t have a right to own nuclear weapons, then neither does the government.

[DuncanWaring]

The Second Amendment doesn’t give citizens any rights.

[themidnightskulker]

Don’t forget the Letters of Marque clause.

[ExTxMarine]

There will always be a boundary, I don’t think the second amendment gives citizens the right to own a nuclear weapon for example.

This is where a great many of us will be divided, because I believe the words "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" means, well that the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Our Founding Fathers were so brilliant, in so many ways. Many of their ideas were very simplistic and straight forward. They knew too well that "Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." They were not building a tyrannical government; however, it seems that is EXACTLY into what it has morphed!

Accepting this level and type of tyranny is often done as a "compromise" and to show that certain boundaries can be set. But, this really just shows those who wish to REMOVE our Constitutionally protected rights, that some people are willing to compromise and sell-out EVERYONE'S RIGHTS. With that, the evil ones can push as far as they want, because they know that there will be those who will further compromise - over and over and over. Benjamin Franklin said it best, "He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."

Not I; I refuse this tyranny!