[rktman]

Nothing in the Bill of Rights or Constitution mean a thing to the America hating leftist and they'll deny our rights to the very end. Nice article though. Seems pretty clear to me what the words say. Then again, since I'm merely a peon, probably not smart enough to understand what they "really" meant.

[dr_lew]

My own idea of the thing is that the 2nd Amendment was written with reference to military arms, as the phrase “keep and bear” would suggest. The thing is that this goes well beyond the self-evident right to own a personal firearm, which, if it was overlooked in the Bill of Rights, was only because it would have seemed redundant to assert something so self-evident, like asserting the right to own water-pails, or any other thing.

It seems to me that the right to own firearms, as far as that may be distinct from keeping and bearing them, would be amply embraced by the Ninth Amendment, certainly in the minds of the Framers.

[William Tell]

Let's be careful not to jump from the frying pan into the fire.

The last thing we want now is for the government to start taking some active role in "regulating" the Militia. That can only mean registering gun owners, registering guns, inventories of ammunition, mandated storage of arms in common lockups, and dozens of other infringements not yet imagined.

The only role the government has in maintaining the unorganized Militia is to cease infringing the right of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms. That's it. Nothing else.

[itsahoot]

Seems pretty clear to me what the words say.

And yet professionally trained lawyers and politicians can make it entirely incomprehensible.

[Usagi_yo]

Question, the Constitution doesn’t say anything about people owning firearms. That’s an amendment. The Constitution instantiates the Militia with:

“To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;”

So then, the U.S Military is prohibited from these in the Posse Comitatus Act. Which is a law, not a constitutional enumeration or amendment.

Leads me to believe that the Posse Comitatus act is unconstitutional.

Anybody else?

[RC one]

FROM THE ARTICLE:

“Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”

When one talks about the possibility of erecting permanent security firewalls around millions of soft targets, one must consider that, first and foremost, there's not a defensive line in all of recorded history that hasn't eventually been breached, circumvented, or otherwise defeated by a determined and creative enemy. Secondly, one must consider the astronomical cost of those defensive barriers. Thirdly, one must consider that most Americans do not wish to live under indefinite martial law.

The solution is clear and has been for over 225 years- keep the citizens well armed and well educated on the use of their arms. There is no other viable solution.

It bears repeating: there is no other viable solution.

The liberals who argue otherwise display an incredible lack of reason and have taken the innate stupidity of their leftist ideology to new heights and, in doing so, they threaten the security of the country, the constitution, and the American people.

This threat underlies our hatred for them. It isn't their skin color that we hate, it's their dangerously high level of stupidity which threatens us all.

[3Fingas]

So what status do people over the age of 45 have? They would not be part of the unorganized militia anymore.

[neverdem]

BTTT!