Gun Control & RKBA

people safer.

Now when you talk about Nunn v. Georgia (1846), let us talk about the reason behind certain language.

The Framers did not provide for a standing army. Hence the emphasis on a militia, and also the requirement that any authorization for military expenditures be of no more than 2 year duration. So when the Nunn Court talked about: " the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State", they were talking about the militia as the representative of state power and defense. Not some "Red Dawn" fantasy of an armed populace resisting their own government.

What Nunn talked about for the state was a reflection of what the Framers intended the Second Amendment to mean.

Rather than centuries of precedent, I should have said centuries of a uniform understanding of the meaning of the language of the Second Amendment. Until Heller, which represents more years of NRA lobbying, buying politicians, and successfully frightening a small, but vocal segment of the US population, there was no talk about unlimited, nearly unregulated gun possession.