Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]jimmy the one
(2,723 posts)guillaume: I disagree with that view... and further that the right to keep and bear arms is directly related to being in a well regulated militia.
I essentially agree as well, but moreso with the 'militia centric' view, which is kind of in between the pure militia view & the individual. Militia centric means the militia was at the heart of 2ndA, but there was no problem with people individually owning guns in 1791 when 2ndA enacted. Centric means revolving about something, here the militia. I think this is what dershowitz means when he says that people have an individual right to own guns to belong to militia.
PS: the nra & gun lobby hate the militia centric view.
Nothing in the Second Amendment can be construed as conferring a right to carry rifles or other arms around during peacetime. The function of the militia is spelled out in the Constitution. Personal defense is not one of those enumerated functions.
I know. But gun ownership was certainly allowed, but not part of any 2ndA 'right'.
2ndA's been subverted by the supreme court & given this 2nd amendment mythology.
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