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Subject Does the 2nd Amendment give "individuals" the right to bear arms or just for members of a "well-regulated militia"?

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[quote:Anonymous Coward 190075:MV81MjI2MzJfODA0NTYyMl8xRkExQjU2QQ==]
[quote:sonofliberty 395218]
i am sick of this fucking shit! there is no need for "debate" or "interpetation" on ths "issue". if the phrase in the constitution is unclear to the dumbed down masses, one only needs to read from the hundreds of pages passionately written by our founding fathers, the greatest politcal minds the world has ever produced. they made it very clear it was a god given (NOT State granted!} right for individual citizens to own guns, in fact, more of a duty to do so, to protect from government abuse. this whole arguement that the militia IS the national guard is a joke, as the guard is a recent invention, unknown to the founding fathers! the militia was at the time understood to be EVERY male citizen between 16 and 40 or so, armed with their OWN (not state supplied ) weapon. these are the individual, free citizens that fired against oppressors at Lexington and Concord. they were NOT the national guard, case closed!!!
anyone that argues otherwise is either
1. completely ignorant of our history, and has not done their homework or,
2. trying to cover up the truth for their own sick agenda!
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You are absolutely right!  It was a duty for all men and boys then to bear arms and be ready.
Now they are more worried about violations of the criminals civil rights, if you try to stop them from breaking and entering,
robbing or raping anyone in your family.

[quote:boston]If the district's outright ban on all handguns, in all homes, at all times, for all purposes, is determined by the court to pass muster, it will mean that the Supreme Court intends to rubberstamp just about any regulation that a legislature can dream up - no matter whether the government has offered any justification whatsoever, much less a justification that would survive strict scrutiny. That would, in effect, excise the Second Amendment from the Constitution. A right that cannot be enforced is no right at all.[/quote]
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Original Message Fighting for our right to bear arms
[link to www.boston.com]

"...DOES THE Constitution's Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms or is that right reserved exclusively for members of a "well-regulated militia"? That is the question the US Supreme Court will consider today in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, a Second Amendment challenge to the District of Columbia's ban on all functional firearms.

I helped bring this case to court on behalf of six Washington, D.C., residents who want to keep functional firearms in their homes to defend themselves and their families should the need arise. But Washington's law bans all handguns not registered before 1976 and requires that lawfully owned shotguns and rifles in the home be kept unloaded and either disassembled or bound by a trigger lock at all times. There is no exception for self-defense. Washington, often known as the "murder capital of the nation," cannot defend its citizens and will not allow them to defend themselves.

This case requires, at a minimum, two findings from the Supreme Court: First, the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms - not a right limited to people engaged in state militia service. Second, the district's ban on all functional firearms violates that individual right and is, therefore, unconstitutional..."

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