[justme4now]

No court, including the Supreme Court has the authority to rule on gun rights!

Our Rights are Natural Rights and a Right of self protection from man and most importantly ... from Government!

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The vast majority of people who believe that the government has the right to regulate gun ownership by passing new laws ... have a poor understanding of our Constitution!

Most of the arguments about the Second Amendment ... made by both sides, revolve around a single assumption - that the Second Amendment grants a citizen the right to bear arms.

What both sides fail to understand is that the Second Amendment grants no such right, in fact, the Constitution grants no rights at all!

What the Constitution does do is identify what powers the people grant to the government.

This is the whole purpose of the Constitution - to tell the government what it can and cannot do, our Constitution is a limit on government.

That is why Marxists, Socialist, Progressive Democrats, et al. have such a disdain for our Constitution ...
It is a limitation on Government not a limitation on We The People.

Read the Second Amendment closely.
Nowhere does it state that the people have a right to bear arms but rather that the government cannot infringe on that right.


The framers of our Constitution believed that our right to bear arms is a natural right , not a right to be given to us by government.


Amendment II

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.

That’s it, that is the whole 2nd Amendment. Where does it say that the government gives us any right?

It doesn’t, it only says that the government cannot infringe on this right.

The following quote sums it up nicely ...

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government- that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen’s protection against the government.
(Ayn Rand)

2ND AMENDMENT

[justme4now]

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country 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.”

(Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787)

[broken_clock]

Read the Second Amendment closely. Nowhere does it state that the people have a right to bear arms but rather that the government cannot infringe on that right.

Precisely. Good post!

[Future Snake Eater]

No court, including the Supreme Court has the authority to rule on gun rights! Our Rights are Natural Rights and a Right of self protection from man and most importantly ... from Government!

Yet there are no repercussions for violating the Constitution. If an entity has "standing" and can get their case heard by the SCOTUS, then the unconstitutional law can get overturned. That's about it. Then another unconstitutional law can get put in place. And the long process can start again.

[zeestephen]

Do we know the author of the exact words and the syntax in the Second Amendment?

The opening line - “A well regulated militia” - has caused more confusion and more legal argument than almost anything else in the Constitution.

My first guess about the author would be Thomas Jefferson, who found great pleasure in condensing the maximum possible meaning into the fewest possible words.

There is a truly beautiful lyrical quality to the Second Amendment, but it created legal disputes that will never end.

[zeugma]

The Second Amendment does not confer upon the people the right to keep and bear arms; it is one of the provisions of the Constitution which, recognizing the prior existence of a certain right, declares that it shall not be infringed by Congress. Thus the right to keep and bear arms is not a right granted by the Constitution and therefore is not dependant upon that instrument for its source. United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542, 543; Presser v. Illinois, 116 U. S. 252, 265; Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 U. S. 275, 281.