We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[David Horn]

(09-30-2020, 07:26 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(09-30-2020, 03:00 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-29-2020, 12:43 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(09-29-2020, 11:13 AM)David Horn Wrote: With Hang-'em-high Amy coming to the court, gun rights might become total.  Then the bloodshed will begin in earnest.

Is there part of 'shall not be infringed' that you don't get?  I don't know that anyone is arguing about felons and the insane.

You seem to ignore the part about the militia that was the justification for the thing in the first place.  And let's get real.  We had a guy not far from here who decided to flee a sheriff's deputy, was finally caught and arrested (after an armed standoff).  His car's trunk held enough firepower for an infantry squad, with even more at his residence.  He chose to live.  Others may choose otherwise.

Yes.  At times, they put in a justification in front of the implementation.  For example, as legislators have to have free speech, the people shall have free speech.  Rights are by their nature given to the People, not to agencies of the government.  Thus, you pay attention to the implementation phrase rather than the justification phrase.  That is the way it is interpreted in every other case of a right worded with a justification phrase.  The exception was when the Jim Crow Supreme Court was twisting the law to remove rights from the blacks.

But no, rather than an amendment the liberals prefer to legislate from the bench.

We'll see what happens in the never again phase at the end of this crisis.  Something has to be done, but it should not be more legislation from the bench.

Read the rest of the Bill of Rights, and find a case where a justification was ignored in law -- assuming one even exists.  These 10 amendments were written as simple declarative sentences by people who didn't want them misconstrued, but the 2nd was anyway.  At some point, that will be recognized and resolved.