[ECM]

Hmm, except that the Second Amendment sorta/kinda guarantees your right to bear arms regardless of how those politicians feel...not so much on your ‘right’ to smoke weed, snort coke, inject heroin, etc.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Hmm, except that the Second Amendment sorta/kinda guarantees your right to bear arms regardless of how those politicians feel...not so much on your ‘right’ to smoke weed, snort coke, inject heroin, etc.”

It enumerates a god-given right.

Even without the BOR, we would have the right.

After all, it is we who grant power to the Government, not the Government which grants rights to us!

[Mack the knife]

Hmm, except that the Second Amendment sorta/kinda guarantees your right to bear arms regardless of how those politicians feel...not so much on your ‘right’ to smoke weed, snort coke, inject heroin, etc.

---

...except for those pesky Ninth and Tenth Amendments that explicitly say that just because rights are enumerated in the first eight amendments, that doesn’t mean those are all the rights that exist. And there was no Procrustrian regulation of drugs in 1800.

[tpaine]

Many here at FR disagree with the basic concept that Congress is not empowered by the Commerce Clause to prohibit commerce that is "completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a State, or between different parts of the same State, and which does not extend to or affect other States."

-- These FReepers believe that our 'War on Drugs' is justified by "Congressional findings", -- opinions that prohibitions on dangerous products are a "necessary and proper" role of Congress.

Needless to say, many in Congress see firearms as 'dangerous products'.
Do you?

Hmm, except that the Second Amendment sorta/kinda guarantees your right to bear arms regardless of how those politicians feel...not so much on your 'right' to smoke weed, snort coke, inject heroin, etc.

Hmmm, you agree then that Congress can prohibit [unenumerated] 'dangerous products' because they have a power to "regulate commerce among the several States"?

Thanks for admitting it.
Under that type of reasoning your guarantee, -- your right to bear arms, is subject to how Congress "feels" about how dangerous a specific firearm can be found.
They've already made "findings" on machine guns. Are semi-autos next?