Neither does the freedom to own fast cars, and to drive a car whenever we choose to, keep us safe. And a hell of a lot more people own and use cars unnecessarily and for recreational purposes than those who own guns.
If a law were passed to limit the use of automobiles to absolute necessity a lot more than 30,000 lives would be saved every year. Cars, including their toxic emissions, kill far more Americans than guns do, but I never hear any calls for seriously limiting their use.
My neighbor's grandson owns a car that sounds like a WW-II bomber when it starts and the rumbling sound of the engine suggests it has two or three times the horsepower it needs to get him around. How many such dangerous cars are on America's streets and highways today? And how many less potentially lethal cars are on the roads but have no practical need to be?
I wonder how the teen-age anti-gun protesters would react to a proposed ban on all but necessary use and ownership of cars.
We take action to reduce car deaths
Safer cars, safer roads, require licensing, registration, insurance
We need to do the same with guns
The difference is, you do not own an automobile and the Bill of Rights does not protect any "
right" to own an automobile.
The Right to keep and bear Arms is an extension of your
unalienable Rights of Liberty and Life. You have a Right to Life and it is
YOUR responsibility to protect such Life. THAT is why the Second Amendment protects the
individual Right to Keep and bear Arms.
Nor does it grant unlimited rights to own any arm you desire and actually encourages registration and mandatory training
Under
original intent AND the
earliest court decisions, you are absolutely 100 percent
WRONG.
The
United States Supreme Court, through a series of tyrannical decisions proclaimed themselves to be the final arbiter of what the law is and subsequently began an illegal power grab not to mention they began legislating from the bench. If we look at the earliest Court decisions, it's easy to see that the founders disagreed with you across the board. Take the
Cruikshank ruling back in
1876 (the first time the Court addressed this point):
"
The Government of the United States, although it is, within the scope of its powers, supreme and beyond the States, can neither grant nor secure to its citizens rights or privileges which are not expressly or by implication placed under its jurisdiction. All that cannot be so granted or secured are left to the exclusive protection of the States...
The right there specified is that of "bearing arms for a lawful purpose." This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence."
United States v. Cruikshank,
92 U.S. 542 (1876)
United States v. Cruikshank - Wikipedia
*The Right exists
*It's not dependent upon the Constitution for its existence
*The Right to Keep and bear Arms predates the Constitution
*The federal government is, constitutionally,
not authorized to grant Rights that are not within their jurisdiction
*Before this question reached the United States Supreme Court, many states
had ruled and established a precedent:
"
The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and 'is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power." [Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859)]
What is being enforced today is illegal, immoral, unconscionable, indefensible, and above all
wholly unconstitutional.