Imagine the government asking you for ID before you exercise your right to purchase a firearm.
Wow.
I guess that’s where the well regulated militia part comes in, isn’t it?
that has nothing to do with bearing arms other than explaining why,,,
Yep.
" 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. "
Exactly as you said, it's an explanation of the right. Colfax can't read. Government school failure.
The right is, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Not sure what's unclear about that
This lesson in grammar never seems to sink in:
Cute analogy. Makes me hungry even though I've had breakfast.
What it totally misses is this: the 2A is an Amendment in the Constitution. As part of the Constitution it has zero need to explain itself. A constitution is a direct declaration of "how we're going to do things". It is not an argument in court to persuade some entity. Therefore there is no reason it should have to vindicate itself with a basis of argument. And the number of other Amendments that follow this pattern is, predictably, Zero.
And that leaves the existing 2A as a lexicographical train wreck. One that was obviously drafted by committee and not finished.
Breakfast, on the other hand, is completely up to the individual. I've heard there are even freaks who don't do it at all.
/WAY WAY offtopic
So what you're saying is, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" means the right of the people shall not be infringed?
I agree.
So what I'm saying is there's an entire phrase in there, right at the beginning, that has no function.
its function is to tell morons that would infringe on that right why its there,,,
Once AGAIN for the slow readers, there is no reason to explain why it's there. And I already pointed this out.
ZERO Amendments other than this one "explain why they're there". Because they don't have to.
If that were necessary we'd be starting with "A well balanced "Discourse being necessary to the Vitality of a free State, Congress shall make no law abridging the Freedom of Speech.... etc"
But they don't say that, do they.
Nor do they need to. Because (again) it's a declaration, not a basis of argument.