If you’re in a “well regulated militia"
"No scholar or court has argued seriously that the Second Amendment guarantees a “right” to join or bear arms in the National Guard or a state militia – such organizations make their own recruitment and employment decisions. This argument, contrived in the 20th century to emasculate the Second Amendment, has never been taken seriously on the merits."
"Attorney General Ashcroft states that “the text and the original intent of the Second Amendment clearly protect the right of individuals to keep and bear firearms.”
"Ashcroft quotes George Mason at the Virginia ratification convention in 1788: “I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people [...] To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
The Ashcroft letter continues: “As recently as 1986, the United States Congress and President Ronald Reagan explicitly adopted this view in the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act.” The act states, “The Congress finds that the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms under the second amendment to the United States Constitution [...] require additional legislation to correct existing firearms statutes and enforcement policies.” This finding was amply supported by The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a 1982 report of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution. It found:
The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.
Rewriting the Second Amendment - Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D.
Ouch. This is a comprehensive beat down on your nonsensical and completely made up view of the U.S. Constitution.
Corny's arguments against the 2A are completely ridiculous and easily proven false, yet keeps on making the same old arguments which are shot down again and again.
Yeah...it's sad. The left just can't be honest. I don't understand why it's so hard to say "I hate the 2nd Amendment, guns scare me, and I think they should be outlawed" and then work to amend the U.S. Constitution
legally so that guns are restricted our outlawed.
I would have
zero problem with
any liberal that did that. The founders weren't dictators, they built in a mechanism to change the Constitution as the people see fit. The reason people are so irate with liberals is because they can't accept the will of the American people and so they attempt to restrict our rights and freedoms by violating the law. It's disgusting and disgraceful.