[ForYourChildren]

I hate the MSM.

From its inclusion in the Constitution in 1791 until 2008, it was not understood to give Americans a personal right to have a gun.

Liars!

[righttackle44]

Anytime—ANYTIME—a Constitutional convention is called for the purpose of changing any part of it, ALL of it can be changed.

[Myrddin]

The amended verbage I recommend: "The right of an individual to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".

That approach casts an individual right, not a "people" that might be misconstrued as a collective group of individuals. No mention of militia. No mention of "regulation" to tempt the politician to legislated restrictions. No requirement to be a "citizen" that might act as a wedge to separate individuals into citizens and non-citizens. Eliminating the reference to militia also removes the opportunity to disenfranchise an individual by narrowly defining who may be a member of the militia.

[Joe Boucher]

Molon Labe’, baby.
Come and take em.

[Jabba the Nutt]

“As a result of [Supreme Court] rulings, the Second Amendment, which was adopted to protect the states from federal interference with their power to ensure that their militias were ‘well regulated,’ has given federal judges the ultimate power to determine the validity of state regulations of both civilian and militia-related uses of arms. That anomalous result can be avoided by adding five words to the text of the Second Amendment to make ti unambiguously conform to the original intent of the draftsmen. As so amended, it would read: ‘A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed.’ ”

This lunatic was a Supreme Court Justice. Every other time the "right of the people" is mentioned in the Bill Rights, it applies to the people, except here. How can that be? Moron.

[Mycroft Holmes]

The phrase "well regulated" in colonial times:

The following are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, and bracket in time the writing of the 2nd amendment:

1709: "If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations."
1714: "The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world."
1812: "The equation of time ... is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial."
1848: "A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Mayor."
1862: "It appeared to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine proceeding."
1894: "The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated American embryo city."

The phrase "well-regulated" was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people's arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.

Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation

[DoodleDawg]

Crank up an Article V convention and I guarantee there were be a lot of states who think it does need to be modified if not repealed.

[B4Ranch]

[backwoods-engineer]

They are really pushing this hard, aren't they? This must be Reid and Obama's next push: "if these Constitutionalist teabaggers obey the Constitution, then we will make the Constitution say they can have no guns."

Inching ever closer--millimeter by millimeter!-- toward full-scale civil war, with massive bloodshed, famine, displacement, and misery for all Americans.