< nervously crosses fingers >
If it goes the wrong way, we’d better cross our legs.
So “the people” realy means the states rights to shoot the feds, making the civil war instigated by lincoln ,unconstitutional.
The primary documents of Madison and his contemporaries are replete with references clearly indicating that the Second Amendment was considered by the Founders as an individual right, not simply a right to be exercised collectively that was contingent upon being called to service in the militia. Madison himself wrote in his personal notes that the amendments he had written “relate 1st to private rights.”[55] In referring to the need to pass a Bill of Rights to reduce Anti-Federalist concern over the magnitude and possible growth of federal power, James Madison stated that the “amendments may be employed to quiet the fears of many by supplying those further guards for private rights
The signification attributed to the term Militia appears from the debates in the Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense ... [a]nd further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves ....[118]
This is great news, as the current court should uphold and expand the current thinking on second amendment language.
“From my cold dead hands”, as set in stone by the 2nd amendment. After their hoped-for positive ruling the gangbangers will think twice about robbing grandma of her purse because they’ll be thinking about what she’s hiding in her shawl!
I don’t cross my fingers...;-)
My finger sits right outside the trigger guard...hehehe
If this goes the RIGHT way, I wonder how it will affect the murder rate in DC in the subsequent years....