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Are you really that goofy? The fifth Circuit Court ruled in Emerson v US that the second amendment of the US Const. stand for the right of the INDIVIDUAL to keep and bear arms. The National Guard did not exist until the early 1900's and the so called militia as defined in any dictionary, ARE THE PEOPLE. UNorganized means civilians, meaning the people not the State.

The very reason for the second amendment was not to give Americans anything. The Constitution created a government. The second amendment was placed in the Constitution to insure that the right to keep and bear would NEVER be infringed upon by this newly created government, which the PEOPLE feared would get to powerful and subdue the people AGAIN!

You cannot place something in the Constitution, and then diminish those rights under the second amendment simply because you don't like handguns. The right to keep and bear arms existed BEFORE the constitution was created or adopted.

If the second amendment stands for the right of the State to keep and bear arms, then why in the hell does the 1st amendment stand for the right of the State to have freedom of speech and the press controlled by the State? Seems to me that liberals like to pick and choose those rights protected by the Constitution, eliminating the right to keep and bear arms by Americans, but, ready to fight and kill to uphold the right of free speech and the press.

If we lose our rights under the second amendment to an over powering government, then you had better say good by to the first, the third, the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth on down, because none of them will have existed, since you misrepresent to the people that only the States possess those rights!

Even Chief Justice Roberts ruled in a case prior to becoming the Chief Justice while he was in the Fifth Circuit, that the US Government did not have the right nor the authority to regulate machine guns! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh, can you liberals imagine that? Liberals could never imagine the Government would be restricted, and limited in it's authority to regulate the People of this Country!

Your argument about the second amendment has taken so many hits in the last several years, you really need new material. We await several cases to go to the US Supreme Court to end the nightmare of the second amendment refers to the States right to keep and bear arms. Those States did not exist at the time the Constitution was written and adopted. Americans did exist, and the unorganized militia, made up of the farmers, ranchers, and every day people certainly did, they were instrumental in the defeat of the British armies!