Reply #182: Well, here it is for the umpteenth time... [View All]

[SteveM]

We have read the Second Amendment twice, ten times, a hundred times, whatever you want. Now, it is time for YOU to start reading:

The main body of the amendment is "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The so-called "militia clause" in no way restricts an individual's right to keep and bear arms in accordance with some notion of militia. Even the great champion of the "militia clause," Laurence Tribe, had to finally admit (in 1999) that the wording of 2A recognized an individual right to keep and bear arms. In fact, the vast majority of historians, political scientists, con-law and legal scholars say the same thing.

You should keep in mind that virtually ALL the current and proposed gun-control laws are founded on the rank racist gun-control laws of the South, from colonial times, through the antebellum period, through Jim Crow and well into the 20th Century. Would you like a source for this? www.georgiacarry.org Search locally for the legal brief submitted on behalf of Heller in the '08 SCOTUS case. When you have read this THOROUGHLY, then "tell me what it means to you."

MLK once applied for a concealed-carry permit. Guess what happened? He was denied due to Jim Crow gun-control laws of the 1950s. Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman packed, BTW. Other Civil Rights leaders of the era were also armed, Jim Crow or not.