danielpalos
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Due process applies. Gun rights are taken away from individual (criminals) of the People all the time. Right wingers would have us believe that the People may not be infringed in the keeping a bearing of Arms by the police power of a State for their own security.That interpretation basically sounds like another way of saying "you have the right to bear arms unless we feel like taking it away."There are two rules of construction, dictated by plain reason, as well as founded on legal axioms. The one is, that every part of the expression ought, if possible, to be allowed some meaning, and be made to conspire to some common end. The other is, that where the several parts cannot be made to coincide, the less important should give way to the more important part; the means should be sacrificed to the end, rather than the end to the means.--The Federalist Number Forty
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.
All terms are collective and plural not individual or singular. Our Second Amendment is clearly about the security of our free States not the whole and entire concept of Individual rights. And, the People are the Militia, you are either well regulated or unorganized.
Only well regulated militia of the United States have literal recourse to our Second Amendment when keeping and bearing Arms for the security of their State or the Union. The unorganized militia as Individuals of the People are subject to the police power of their State.
Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (Illinois State Constitution)
Only well regulated militia have literal recourse to our Second Amendment when keeping and bearing Arms for their State or the Union not gun lovers as unorganized militia of individuals of the people. Our First Amendment is first not Second. And, would legislators feel any need to enact gun control laws if it weren't for the safety issues caused by those who are specifically unorganized and unconnected with militia service well regulated?