Most of the arguments about the Second Amendment made by both sides revolve around a single assumption - that the Second Amendment grants a citizen the right to bear arms. What both sides fail to understand is that the Second Amendment grants no such right, in fact, the Constitution grants no rights at all!
What the Constitution does do is identify what powers the people grant to the government. This is the whole purpose of the Constitution - to tell the government what it can and cannot do, our Constitution is a limit on government.
That is why Marxists, Socialist, Progressive Democrats like Obama hate our Constitution because it is a limitation on Government not a limitation on We The People.....
Read the Second Amendment closely, it doesnt say the people have a right to bear arms but rather that the
government cannot infringe on that right. The framers of our Constitution believed that our right ot bear arms is a natural right,not a right to be given to us by government.
Amendment II
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.
Thets it, that is the whole 2nd Amendment...where does it say that the government gives us any right? It doesnt, it only says that the government cannot infringe on our rights.
Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government- that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens protection against the government. Ayn Rand
Exactly.....The 2nd says basically, Hey FERAL Government keep your hands off of the Citizen weapons, you have not rights to them and you never will.
What is so difficult about that.