TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

That fact works against your argument Kevyn:


“2. The amendment’s primary justification was to prevent the United States from needing a standing army.

“Preventing the United States from starting a professional army, in fact, was the single most important goal of the Second Amendment. It is hard to recapture this fear today, but during the 18th century few boogeymen were as scary as the standing army — an army made up of professional, full-time soldiers.

“By the logic of the 18th century, any society with a professional army could never be truly free. The men in charge of that army could order it to attack the citizens themselves, who, unarmed and unorganized, would be unable to fight back. This was why a well-regulated m*****a was necessary to the security of a free state: To be secure, a society needed to be able to defend itself; to be free, it could not exist merely at the whim of a standing army and its generals.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/02/22/what-the-second-amendment-really-meant-to-the-founders/?utm_term=.5e79baaced74

The idea of not allowing personal protection against government infringement was not what they had in mind. It was for the citizenry as a collective to be able to defend themselves against a professional army, such as, I might add, what we now have in the armed forces. So what you are proposing in limited gun rights away from citizens and given to the “government” is precisely what the founders were against and were combatting: giving ultimate power to the state rather than the people of the state.

Back to school with you, and not the l*****t indoctrination centers!

Rose42

Wrong. If you read more of what the framers wrote you'd know what they meant. The left tries to spin it this way so they can gain more control.

TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

Spin doctors extraordinaire!

zillaorange

Try the American Legion Kev !!! Already trained & willing to protect & defend the CONSTITUTION !!! There's MILLIONS OF U. S. !!!

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Where is the "well regulated"?

bylm1-Bernie

Gee, Kevyn, I'm glad you pointed that out. I'll bet nobody ever thought of that before. Well, maybe we'll here more about it. Maybe AOC will jump on it.

woodguru

You are aware that there are many states that laws are not in force? Which is the problem, this constant rhetoric that there are laws "in place" is pure BS... does every state have laws in place like California does? Not hardly. No law being looked at interferes with a normal person's ability to buy guns, I just bought a shotgun and when I was picking it up bought a nice sized pistol for concealed carry. I have to wait ten days, but 20 wouldn't k**l me.

woodguru

That is a term that is f**e news, doesn't mean anything

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

And we know who doesn't want regulations.

zillaorange

":The right of self defense is the 1st law of nature;in most gov'ts it has been the study of rules to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits...(when) the right of the people to keep & bear arms is under any pretext, whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, it's on the brink of destruction!
St. George Tucker

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

F the 2nd amendment.

Smedley_buzkill

Yet.

okie don

Speaking of guns, we just passed 'Constitutional Carry' here in Oklahoma.
We are the 14th State.
Just sharing...

Reaper13

Where in the second amendment does it say a person who has been found guilty of a felony and has done the time and has paid their debt to society can not own a gun?

I’m pretty sure there are laws about double jeopardy!

Wonttakeitanymore

One large part of gun regulation should be what drugs are u taking? Do u visit a psychologist regularly? These seem to b the predominant factor in the crazies! There is prevalence in a certain type of drug issued by so called doctors that tie all of the shooters together!