Reply #58: Not really [View All]

[MrBenchley]

"Likewise there is no shortage of extra-Constitutional writings by the authors in which they explain that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms was meant to apply to each enfranchised individual"
The Federalist papers clearly express that it is a collective right...and in fact, the only time during the Constitutional debates that the concept of individual ownership was raised was in Massachusetts (in a proposal usually falsely attributed to Samuel Adams) and the concept was VOTED DOWN.

"And, yet, shortly after the Constitution's ratification, the US Supreme Court ruled otherwise"
And has continued to, across nearly 240 years....and it's worth noting that despite their dishonest claims (which if true, would render EVERY gun control law unconstitutional), the National Rifle Association has never sued to overturn a single gun control law on Second Amendment grounds. That's never, as in not ever.

What does it say when someone won't put their money where their mouth is?