The right of the people to keep and BEAR arms shall not be infringed.
In my opinion.
here we go again by making a sentence out of fragments to change the meaning of the second amendments.
YOU do realize there is a COMMA in between " the right of the people to keep and bear arms" , "shall not be infringed"..... RIGHT?
You, like every other gun owner in this country, make a STAND ALONE sentence to give it a meaning it doesnt have.
We have already covered this subject many times, yet, the same people put this sentence in, as if thats how it reads in the second amendment.
Lets cover it again.
The second amendment contains a PREAMBLE, or in simple terms, a SUBJECT.
The preamble ( subject) is : "A well regulated militia , "
Then, that preamble (subject) is then QUALIFIED. Each qualification that applies to the preamble is separated by a comma. This is SIMPLE ENGLISH 101.
The first qualification to the preamble is : " , being necessary for the security of the state , "
The second qualifier is: " , the right of the people to bear and keep arms , "
The last qualifier is : ", shall not be infringed."
Where you people get a STAND alone sentence that reads "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." is beyond reality.
But, GUN owners, like the NRA, argue, that the comma CONNECTS the third fragment and the fourth fragment only, and the two previous commas dont have anything to do with the last two fragments.
Thats not how english works.
the subject discussed in the second amendment is A WELL REGULATED MILITIA.
Everything else applies to the militia, upto and including the militia act of 1792 in the second congress, as the second amendment was written in the first congress in 1791.
Clearly, in the militia act, the militia was WELL REGULATED and controlled by the president of the United States, and militias were NEVER allowed to control themselves.
They took orders from commanding officers who took orders from the president.
For now, you get to have your beloved weapons of death. We get it, you live in fear, you need your safety blankets.
Dont worry though, the only people who dont want stricter gun control laws, are the people who couldnt pass background checks in the first place, or gun sellers who sell guns to gang members that end up in multiple homocides.
There are no good gun owners in my book.
TOS.