“You accused me of being a drug user because you mis-counted the clauses of Article I Section 8?”
No... Because you think the 2A is not needed and your reasoning that the M&R and militia clauses constitute a protection for our RKBA is literally... non-sensical.
I never said that. I said that 2A is where the right to personally own and possess guns is codified in the Bill of Rights. It was the states that asked for it to be spelled out clearly that it was an individual right. I said it separated Americans from the English because the English kept their arms locked up away from the people, and 2A was about individual ownership and possession of arms. Why do you keep skipping over this part?
Prior to the second amendment, despite the writings of Madison and Hamilton that the Articles' reference to "militia" meant the armed populace and the causes of calling the armed populace into service, the states still wanted it in writing that it was an individual right that could not be infringed.
But if you read the Federalist essays that I cited, it should be clear that Madison and Hamilton all knew that it was an individual right to keep and bear arms even before 2A.
I don't know why you're being so pedantic about this. I will add that if only the first Congress had added an amendment defining a natural born citizen the way they added 2A to clarify "militia" and the right of individual gun ownership, we'd be in a much better place.
-PJ
Okay, so you admit that you made a personal attack?
-PJ