[rightwingcrazy]

I thought the Second Amendment was a sensible gun law.

[PeterFinn]

The Second Amendment is not a gun law at all. It is a law that prohibits government from interfering in freedom and liberty. The Bill of Rights enumerates rights and does not grant anyone rights. The assumption of the Framers is that you have these rights no matter what laws may be on the books. Governments can ban guns all they want, you still have the God-given right to own, carry, and use (as needed) firearms.

Were Thomas Jefferson or any of the Framers alive today they'd feel free to carry concealed in NYC or Washington, D.C. with no concern whatsoever to the illegal and unConstitutional gun bans in place there.

What am I saying?

If any of the Framers were alive today they'd be locked up in Gitmo as terrorists for their "radical" ideas.

[coloradan]

If the Second Amendment were a gun law, it sure isn't enforced. There ought to be a lot of legislators, cops and judges who should go to jail for violating it, but of course they're all on the "other team" and protect each other. This myth of separation of powers is just that, a myth.