Posted on 01/31/2016 5:18:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Second Amendment to the Constitution states: "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." Debate about the Constitutionality of the individual right to bear arms was settled when the US Supreme Court in District of Columbia et al. v Heller stated that:
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
The Second Amendment is more than the right to bear arms. It represents a way of life and a culture in America. People who take advantage of their Second Amendment right are generally very responsible gun owners. In my experience, they take gun safety very seriously for two main reasons: 1) they are law abiding citizens and 2) they recognize the consequences both individually and collectively when guns are abused.
What if the Constitution Changed?
There are two avenues for the "right to bear arms" to be eviscerated, and to be clear I am not advocating for that in this article. The first is by changing the Constitution, specifically repealing the Second Amendment. While changing the Constitution and repealing an Amendment has happened in the past with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) in the Twenty-first Amendment, I don't think this is going to happen. To amend the Constitution we need to satisfy all of the requirements of Article V in the Constitution, which states...
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Liberal wet dreams...
Law abiding citizens get slaughtered.
Govenment Doo-right steps in to save us all.
We become slaves to the State.
Where is “regulated” defined in the constitution?
Bring it and die, liberal swine.
What If the First Amendment Were Repealed?
I think Article V is becoming a trap. They seem to be avoiding limiting amendments to changes in the 17th.
Mark Levin would be doing much better pushing this himself and avoiding things like supporting Cruz and criticizing Trump
Paul Heroux, State Senator (D-MA). The kind of politician the founder had in mind when they wrote the 2nd Amendment.
Settled law! Settled law!
The Second Amendment only serves as a reminder to our Government that our right to Keep and Bear Arms is sacrosanct.
Repeal the reminder, and the Right does not go away, only it will be harder to practice unless we do so in large groups.
It will never happen. Two thirds of the states in favor of that?
I am very comfortable saying it won’t happen.
Reminder: nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way liberals want it settled, and then it is settled.
Regulated, at the time, meant trained. Not regulated, in today’s term.
There is exactly one avenue to eliminate the right to bear arms:
Civil war.
There are many ways to instigate that, not just these two.
There would be a civil war to make the last one look like a sweet sixteen party.
Perhaps when two generations pass away, but try it within the next couple of decades and there will be war on our soil. Americans won’t take this lying down.
Then Article I, section would still fail to grant any authority whatsoever to Congress to prohibit the possession of any object or substance other than counterfeit US money.
Yep, kind of like NBC.
Like the Minor v Happersett decision read, we must go back to the nomenclature of the time.
But it only applies selectively here for some reason.
Regulated could also mean equipped in that usage.
It will be a contest to settle old scores. The wrong bumper sticker on your car will get you killed because it will not be confined to 2nd Amendment issues; civil war never is a one-issue proposition: it's about two different peoples who can not coexist with each other because the other side is perceived to want the other's destruction, and will gleefully celebrate on the way to that end.
So there's your answer. And by the way: we got all the guns.
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