Re: Your Fancy Argument Against Gun Ownership is in Error

"Ralph" <nospam@noway.net> wrote in message
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> Mack the Knife <bulldog101750@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>  Myth: The Second Amendment guarantees the individual right to own a
>> gun.
>> Fact: The Supreme Court has always interpreted this as a state's
>> militia's right, not an individual's.

Like the First Amendment, the Second Amendment
is not a simple reiteration of the common law rights of
Englishmen. As Justice Black wrote in Bridges v.
California, 314 U.S. 252 (1941), "[n]o purpose in
ratifying the Bill of Rights was clearer than that of
securing for the people of the United States much
greater freedom of religion, expression, assembly
and petition than the people of Great Britain had ever
enjoyed."6 Id., 314 U.S. at 265 (emphasis added).
What Justice Black observed about the First
Amendment is equally applicable to the Second. See T.
Cooley, The General Principles of Constitutional Law
in the United States of America, p. 298 (Little Brown
& Company, Boston: 1898) ("The [Second] amendment
... was adopted with some modification and
enlargement from the English Bill of Rights of
168[9]....").


>
> 2nd Amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the
> security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
> shall not be infringed."
>
> During the American Revoution the vast majority of American troops were
> private armies, not state militia. Individual soldiers could decide to
> drop out of the unit at any time.
>
> The liberal press over here has tried to redefine every other word of
> the 2n Amendment. They even tried to use the African defination of the
> word "militia" to try to tell us what our fore fathers meant back in the
> 1700s.
>
> "The People" refers to the civilian population of America.
>
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