yep. It's nothing but a fossilized relic that causes a hell of a lot more trouble than it's worth. Let the legislative branch either congressional or state level decide gun policy and respond to constituent pressures on this issue like any other. Take a figurative 'white out' stick out of the desk drawer and just make every word of it disappear.
It's not true that gun rights advocates mangle the Second Amendment. We just interpret it correctly. There are two clauses in the Second Amendment, the prefatory clause and the objective clause:
I don't believe in guns. Unfortunately, that doesn't make them go away.
why is it that every single person who wants to get rid of the right to keep and bear arms is a big government fan boy?
I don't believe in socialism, having guns keeps it in check
Advocating for them to shoot up their government for enforcing Covid restrictions? How patriotic!
That's because 'big govt fanboys' are also educated, and educated people know how silly every gun killer apologist is, who claims that gun 'rights' have anything to do with the running of a secure confident democratic republic. We just tend to be a smarter group of people as a general rule.
I am better educated than almost every anti gun poster on this board and most of the anti gun posters are rather uneducated when it comes to gun laws and gun use.
BINGO!! TurtleDude for the win! That's what really bothers the left, fear that their socialist takeover will be met with force. Because we all know that even if guns are completely outlawed the first time a black man shoots someone, especially a white man, or even a newborn white infant, the entire left will say it was 100% justified and find 100 reasons to pardon him, even erect a statue in his honor. Only those who cherish the US Constitution shouldn't have guns. All the rest can, and can use them as they wish without impunity.
I am sure you can find the time to 'educate' your state legislator which is exactly where your arguments belong. They are supposed to handle policy issues and that is exactly where this discussion belongs.
Unless you are proposing a "Amendment" to edit or change the 2A, that won't happen.
what is the debate? big government liberals hate the fact that the NRA opposed Leftwing schemes where the left wants to cover its lack of desire to punish real criminals with "gun control" and now gun control is mainly pushed to punish the NRA and likeminded gun owners?
yeah socialist justices ignore the obvious intent of the second
I'd still, as the Supreme Court justice that I am, put it in the context of the day. I'd still believe that the intended definition of "arms" were the armaments generally consistent with the capabilities of armaments of that day, and not on a sliding scale so that machine guns, cannons, tanks, rifle-projected nuclear bombs. And there still could be/would be be limits on where exactly they could be "beared," like not on airplanes, not in hospital nurseries, not in private domiciles or businesses that posted against, not in courts of law, or police stations, etc. But, the basic answer to your question, without the militia wording, I would have to rule that the rights of the amendment, whatever they are, would extend to every person in the USA, with very few people excluded (criminals, minors, the insane, ...).
except every supreme court case and all leading legal scholar line up on my side and not that of the bannerrhoids or the collectivists. I also know that an AR 15 is not a "weapon of war" nor an "assault rifle" despite the idiotic braying of the bannerrhoid left
The ruling stands despite the fact that thr progressive opinions against.