[xone]

If people use it recklessly, we could lose it.

Not very absolute then, unless the definition of absolute has been changed.

[Clintonfatigued]

If people assert their 2nd. Amendment rights in a reckless way, they discredit that right by undermining the public’s support for it. The Constitution stands to the degree that it still does because the public believes in it.

[nvscanman]

The right to keep and bear arms is an absolute.
That would leave open to legal restraints the use
of arms. Thus laws governing where and when a
person may fire a weapon, under what circumstances
a person may shoot another etc. are legitimate
areas of legislative activity. The problem of
course is the agenda driven liberal viewpoint that
conflates keep and bear with use.

[nvscanman]

The right to keep and bear arms is an absolute.
That would leave open to legal restraints the use
of arms. Thus laws governing where and when a
person may fire a weapon, under what circumstances
a person may shoot another etc. as legitimate
areas of legislative activity. The problem of
course is the agenda driven liberal viewpoint that
conflates keep and bear with use.