Bob Reid has been a practicing attorney for over 46 years and has been a resident of Tallahassee since 1989. Reid’s practice has involved, among other matters, both state and federal constitutional issues.
With all do respect, this author is categorically wrong, and is promulgating a narrative born out of the flawed Miller decision that not only is contraindicated in both the history and past legal writings, but in the Heller decision he so casually dimisses. But since the article is written for people not familiar with the history, but relies on the appeal to authority argument, even lefty Lawrence Tribe has cincluded that the right is an individual right.
“There is no mention in the Second Amendment about an individual right to own and bear arms. “
They ALWAYS get this backwards. ALL rights and freedoms not explicitly laid out in to the Feds in the Constitution are reserved to the States or the People. The People, being made up of individuals, obviously have all rights to keep and bear arms. The 2nd Amendment was merely meant to clarify this point.
They do not want to get this correct. This is intentionally misinterpreting the language.
Indeed, something about militia, security, free state, right to arms, oh, and “ the people”.
Hard to miss that operative clause.
State, militia are the people.
The problem seems to be a lack of context. In today’s USA, the statist mentality exists, the basic principles of limited government by consent of the governed is a foreign idea.
The rest of the world s systems are mistakenly substituted for our theory of government.