The Constitution is a Living Document according to our Founding Fathers. It's designed to be updated as needed.
The process to "update" the Constitution is the amendment process or a convention of states. It is not you butt hurt leftists denying civil rights to Americans.
Now, here we go.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State
There is more to the amendment, comrade.
For the first half. In 1917, the National Guard Act allowed the Federal Government to Federalize, equip and fund all State National Guards. Most States no longer felt the need to have State Militias any more and stopped having them. The States realized that the weapons as the Federal Level could not be afforded by the State and NO state could go up against the Federal government anymore due to the power of the weapons and the numbers of available troops. The Organized Militia no longer applied.
And yet the 2nd isn't about the National Guard, never was.
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"The militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves, ... all men capable of bearing arms;..."
— "Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic", 1788 (either Richard Henry Lee or Melancton Smith).
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."
— Tench Coxe, 1788.
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner and author of
The Gulag Archipelago, who spent 11 years in Soviet concentration camps.
If we are ready to violate the
Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that our measures are forging for them, if they did not resist.
— Edward Livingston
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
— Mao Zedong, Nov. 6, 1938,
Selected Works, Vol. 2}
http://www.constitution.org/mil/cs_milit.htm
The militia is all people Comrade, anyone who can carry arms.
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
As of 1850, the power of the firearms outgrew the human being when the Walker Colt was introduced. And it just got worse after that. The Firearms just got more deadly each year. In 1871, many cowtowns outlawed the carrying of firearms of any kind inside of city limits due to the murder rate. Not many years after WWI when the really nasty automatic weapons surfaced that the first Firearms Regulations were enacted for the safety of the Public. The Automatic Weapons were grandfathered out of existence. It took about 10 years to get them completely out of circulation. They weren't really banned but they were regulated into non existence. The main target was the Thompson SMG but it also affect others as well. What this means is that we need to clearly specify what firearms are legal for the street. That means be specific. Where all others are not legal. It's never been spelled out so it's been too ambiguous and open to interpretation. When any firearm is deemed a Public Safety Issue then we need to take a good hard look at it. Just like we do for a power cord or a toaster.
Your flaccid argument against civil rights is as stupid as claiming that Madison never intended for a typewriter to support freedom of speech, hence we should do away with the 1st (as you leftists seek.)
Finally, something that can stay. But what does it really mean if the rest is too ambiguous or no longer applies?
And since when have I EVER said anything about the 1st amendment other than I like it. I like a free press. I like Freedom of Religion. I like freedom of Expression. Obviously much more than you do.
Oh, you'll allow that to stay? how magnanimous of your, Comrade.
IF you seek to change the constitution, the way to do it is through the amendment process. SHOULD you Stalinist thugs attempt to crush civil rights outside of that process, we the people will resist you with deadly force.
Da Comrade?