WinterBorn
Diamond Member
Meaningless. Having had your ass handed to you, you have fabricated this nonsense out of nothing.
It is stupid and boring.
For one moment I will entertain your desperate notion.
The "end" unabiguously stated is,"... to prevent misconstruction or abuse of [the Federal Government's] powers,..."
The "means" is, the whole 2nd Amendment:
"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."
By itself, the preforatory clause is incomplete--it's complete meaning is dependent upon (subordinate to) the complete, unabridged meaning of the main clause, which stands on it's own.
The complete meaning of the preforatory clause requires that "... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The preforatory clause CANNOT constrain the main clause without being repugnant to itself--without violating the 2nd Amendment's stated intent and purpose.
Even if the preforatory clause was the "end" as you so fatuously declare, one CANNOT "sacrifice" the main and operative clause upon which the "end" is dependent without "sacrificing" that "end" as well.
By your own crieria, according to your very own reference, you are wrong. AGAIN. STILL.
The Only thing meaningless, is any willful appeal to ignorance of the law.
Claiming that any part of the Bill of Rights was written to protect the state's rights is the fallacy.
It is not a fallacy to claim that our Second Amendment secures what is necessary to the security of a free State and not merely some allusion to some conspiracy and some collusion.
It is a fallacy to claim that the US Code overrides the US Constitution. And the SCOTUS has ruled that the 2nd amendment is indeed an individual right, whether one is affiliated with a state militia or not.
I am only "over-riding" an appeal to ignorance of the law.
The terms, militia and the People, are collective and plural not Individual; thus, construing any Individual rights is an appeal to ignorance of our own written law. That opinion was merely a waste of the Peoples' tax monies.
So you claim that the US Supreme Court is ignorant and that you have it right? lol
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
So only the states have the right to assembly peaceably?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
So the states are secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, but individuals are not?
Absolute nonsense.