“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
This is the version of the Second Amendment (aka Article II of The Bill of Rights) passed by the Senate and signed by Thomas Jefferson, and it omits the two additional commas after “militia” and “arms”...
The first clause is prefatory; it is the second that is the operative clause...
The prefatory clause informs why it is desirable to guarantee and preserve the right...But it is the operative clause that defines the right...The “right of the people to keep and bear arms” is what shall not be infringed...
“Shall” equals compulsion, and it is the state that is restrained...
“Shall not be infringed” means the right must not be touched, again by the state...The state shall have nothing whatsoever to say about the right, nor how the people choose to exercise it...
The state thru its lawfully sworn officers is restricted to apprehending, prosecuting and punishing those convicted in a trial by jury of abusing this right by commission of a crime...Murder is/was once a capital crime...
Obama and Co do not believe they are restricted by a Constitution...Nor do they have any regard for the difference between “may” and “can”...
They will try to do whatever they think they can get away with...If Congress and SCOTUS allow un-Constitutional acts, then “shall not” becomes irrelevant...
No truer words ever spoken and it'll be worse in his second term.