The current text: "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."
The right generally interpret the militia to be the unorganized militia, that is the entire body of all militarily capable men. The left generally interprets it to be the organized militias of the old colonies, or at least the current National Guard. Instead let us consider it the collective term for the various state defense forces. They're much like the Guard except in that they do not fall under federal authority in any way. To own a firearm legally, one would to buy and register it. To register as a gun owner, one would need to enlist in their state's defense force. What this would mean in practice is that those people carrying a concealed firearm around you in public would be required to attend regular safety and marksmanship instruction from professionals. The pasty white guy packing the Glock in his jacket pocket would pose less of a danger to you and other bystanders when he decided to play big badass hero.
What do you say? Yea? Nay? Yea with modifications?
you're actually incorrect. until scale's Heller decision, 200 plus years of justices KNEW the 2nd applied to a well-regulated militia and laughed out loud at even the idea that the 2nd provided a personal right of gun ownership.
that said, even Heller acknowledged that reasonable regulation is appropriate and it is only a "total ban" which is not.
the right forgets that part and actually are intentionally hostile to it. (which is laughable since it's the law... but well... that's never stopped them).
and laughed out loud at even the idea that the 2nd provided a personal right of gun ownership.
Exactly! That's why it says the right of the militia to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Wait, what?
Never mind. LOL!
Of course, the right is not the right of the militia. It's the right of the PEOPLE, but those who would control us try to create some imaginary limit that really doesn't exist.
The LIMIT is not coming from some "imagined militia"
but there is a NATURAL check on rights, where you don't have the right to ABUSE
defense to threaten violence and commit crimes. With rights come responsibilities.
This is unwritten also, just a natural law.
so the same laws of human nature and democratic governance in collective society
that respect people's right to bear arms to DEFEND the laws
also check against abuses, because the laws include the right of people
to be SECURE and to have DUE PROCESS before depriving anyone of liberties.
What makes robbery, rape, theft, etc. crimes is that they violate the consent of others
and rob people of their equal rights and freedoms.
So there is a natural limit on freedom; by natural laws
people cannot violate the same laws they are defending or invoking
or else they get rejected as hypocrites.