[Jeff Winston]

In an opinion issued today in the Illinois case of Moore v. Madigan, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense … implies a right to carry a loaded gun outside the home.”

Of course it does. To BEAR arms means to CARRY them.

Aside from which, it is obvious that to BEAR arms means something different from KEEPING them, or the word would never have been included in the Second Amendment.

And the Bill of Rights was not instituted to protect the rights of state militias. It was instituted to protect the rights of individual Americans.

The people have a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to both KEEP and CARRY weapons, for defense of their God-given right to go on living, and for other all other legitimate purposes.

[bunkerhill7]

Actually it means more than that:
1887 Webster`s Dictionary:
“to bear, bear v.t., “
“1. to support and move; or carry
2. To be equipped, furnished, or marked with;
to have as belonging, distinguishing, identifying, or characterizing; as to bear a sword, an inscription,, a title, a good reutation or an evil look,
7. To be directed; to be pointed; as, to plant guns to bear upon a trench”

[bunkerhill7]

Actually it means more than that:
1887 Webster`s Dictionary:
“to bear, bear v.t., “
“1. to support and move; or carry
2. To be equipped, furnished, or marked with;
to have as belonging, distinguishing, identifying, or characterizing; as to bear a sword, an inscription,, a title, a good reputation or an evil look,
7. To be directed; to be pointed; as, to plant guns to bear upon a trench”