Wry Catcher
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- #221
Where does the preamble mention democracy?What is truly amusing is the use of the word "PEOPLE" in the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments are universally agreed to mean THE INDIVIDUAL. Only the Second (which progressives despise) is the PEOPLE considered to mean "collective". What a bunch of fucking morons.
How do you view 'We the People..." in the Preamble? As an individual or the collective?
Doesn't matter. The preamble is just that, the preamble, the Bill of Rights on the other hand are consistent in their meaning. Only progressives try and abuse the meaning of the 2nd.
The Preamble is both a vision statement for a new democratic experiment in government and a mission statement for all who followed the founders.
Claiming it is something less than that is disingenuous and dangerous. In fact the Preamble is part of the original COTUS and the Bill of Rights came two years later. All are part of the COTUS but only the Preamble stands alone as the philosophical basis of the rest.
Stating the 2nd A. is a clear statement of anything is absurd, based on the vague verbiage and in both extreme interpretations.
It does not at all matter if "we the people" is collective or individual, because the result is the same, which is a total prohibition on any federal jurisdiction over any of the rights listed in the Bill of Rights. It is all restrictions on federal jurisdiction, and nothing else. So regardless of the motive for the 2nd amendment, the result is the same, which is that any and all federal weapons laws are entirely and completely illegal.
COOL, Why not prove your assertion, find a surface to air missile, and go to the nearest international airport, and when you are supine with guns drawn by LE, tell them what you wrote here.