Reply #12: Oh you mean this one? [View All]

[Spoonman]

ACLU - We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias to assure their own freedom and security against the central government.

I prefer the SCOTUS better defined partial interpretation that many anti's refuse to "find", "read" or otherwise believe.

U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez the Court stated that "'the people' seems to have been a term of art employed in select parts of the Constitution.... it suggests that 'the people' protected by the Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments, and to whom rights and powers are reserved in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, refers to a class of persons who are part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community."

But I guess the ACLU knows more than they do.

I like this one too:

Report by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution (1982) -- "The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner."