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Whether they are right or wrong isn't the issue. The Constitution no longer exists as a check upon the Federal Government. To paraphrase Newt Gingrich when asked why it took an Amendment to ban the sale of Alcohol but not Cannabis, he said, "Your right, but times have changed".

Even so august a conservative personage as Judge Bork is on the record as saying the 2nd Amendment does not confer a right of a individual to posess firearms.

It is not your grandfather's Constitution and the current crisis will ensure that when all is said and done it won't be our Constitution either.

Mourn the Republic
1776-2001

Judge Bork is on the record as saying the 2nd Amendment does not confer a right

He's correct about that.

The 2nd Amendment does not confer that right. It only proscribes government infringement on that right. Read it yourself and see. It doesn't say "The people shall have the right to bear arms.", it says "...the right ... shall not be infringed".

Only God grants rights.