The courts decide NOTHING as far as I’m concerned.
The Constitution which is the ultimate authority gives us the right to bear arms...
The Constitution does not give us any rights. Our rights are derived from our Creator. The Constitution is meant to secure those liberties.
Now that doesn’t mean the government won’t bankrupt you trying to limit your rights, but that’s another thread.
No, the Constitution does not give rights. God does:
"...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."The Constitution protects those unalienable rights from being infringed, abridged or otherwise interfered with by the federal government.
“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.”
I would say this affirms our rights. Armed militias cannot be formed unless those joining the militia possess the arms in the first place. Regulated or not. If a militia is forming to prevent the abuses of gov’t, it would make no sense allowing the gov’t to control the arms the militia would require. JMT
And oh by the way, automatic weapons are protected just as much as semi-automatic. If a soldier can carry it into battle, it should be available for home use.
Suggested correction: The Second Ammendment ACKNOWLEGES our right to keep and bear arms, and forbids the infringing of that right.
Talk as they will. “They” are not blind to the fact Americans are arming themselves like never before.
What “they” will do is to single out any person/persons who attempt to organize and make a severe example out of them/him/her. It will happen.
There are those who have not forgotten Waco and what an out of control government will do to us. The present regime is hell bent on destroying what is left of the Republic.
We have one more mid-term and one more general election to make the changes we need. After that.....history will be interesting.
Bingo!
Thomas Jefferson would disagree, as do I.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men
The Constitution *protects* or in Jefferson's word "secures" the right to keep and bear arms, but it does not create it. If it did, it might say something like: "... the people shall have the right to keep and bear arms". Instead it says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". The very grammar assumes the right exists, and that it belongs to the people. The second amendment commands that it "shall not be infringed".