[neverdem]

However, Public Still Favors Stricter Gun Control

Yeah, that's the ticket. That's why the donkeys became pander bears about Second Amendment rights.

[Myrddin]

Fortunately, the Constitution is not subject to the whims of slanted poll questions. The 2nd Amendment forbids the government from infringing on the pre-existing right to keep and bear arms. It does not "provide the right". The lefties lack the ability to comprehend the difference between the rights of citizens and the enumerated powers of government.

[Waco]

Wearing a gun should be regarded like wearing a watch. Some do, some don’t. Gun control? Outlaw crime!

[El Gato]

Does the Second Amendment Provide the Right to Bear Arms? U.S. Adults Think So

That's nice. Wrong, but nice. Wrong in two ways. First, the second amendment protects an individual right, not provides one. Second, it's not up for a majority vote.

[democratsaremyenemy]

Most of the arguements about the Second Amendment made by both sides revolve around a single assumption - that the Second Amendment grants a citizen the right to bear arms. What both sides fail to understand is that the Second
Amendment grants no such right, in fact, the Constitution grants no rights at all!

What the Constitution does do is identify what powers the people grant to the government. This is the whole purpose of the Constitution - to tell the goverment what it can and cannot do.

Read the Second Amendment closely, it doesn’t say the people have a right to bear arms but rather that the goverment can not infringe on that right. The same is true for most of the other amendments (the exception being the
Sixth Amendment with establishes a right to a speedy trial).

‘’Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government- that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen’s protection against the government.’’
— Ayn Rand

[stevie_d_64]

The interesting thing to all of this is that we all will still have our guns...Dispite wherever this goes...

They can ban all they want...I still had my AR’s, and other sundry long-range heavy hitting hardware (that doesn’t officially exist)...

They’ll keep trying, and I’ll keep fighting...

[joma89]

The 2nd Amendment most certainly allows individual citizens the right to bear arms. It is the citizens responsibility to keep the government in check, up to and including refreshing the tree of freedom “from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

JoMa

[RonF]

A relative majority of U.S. adults – 49 percent

As in a plurality. As in, not a majority.