Reply #84: Thing is, nobody really KNOWS what "2nd amendment rights" really are. [View All]

[bunkerbuster1]

I hear what you're saying, but it's not like we, as a nation, ever really had a consensus on whether the amendment gave everyone the right to own whatever kind of weapon he or she wanted, or whether that includes carrying the weapon wherever he or she wishes.

I tend to think that Democrats are simply more realistic about the limitations of this rather poorly-worded amendment. This might be wishful thinking on my part. Me, I've boned up on the history of the amendment, spent many hours talking and writing about this with those more and less hawkish than I am, and still don't really know WTF "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed" really means.

Except, maybe, nothing more than that the Founders were more wimpy than we'd like to admit, unable to come right out and say "We don't want a standing army!" so they foisted this mess upon us to clean up centuries later...