No, you are wrong as always. Why persecute everyone for the few commiting crimes ? In the Ghettos and Minority communities, because it sure is not in upscale white communities, it is large impoverished African American and Latino communities, I witnessed this personally firsthand in N.Y.C., sitting in an unmarked car watching brazen daylight drug sales. Rather than waste resources going after innocent people, why not target the Gangs and active Criminals actually murdering and commiting 90% of the Crimes ???
You are not going to teach me anything about this...lol This is one step above basic English A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed Means the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed so A well regulated Militia (can be maintained as it is) "being" necessary to the security of a free State All the gun nut twisting and literally stupid SCOTUS decisions do not alter this.
Sure, and slavery was ended as well by the same means. The FF built a mechanism to modify the Constitution if needed, and more importantly, if ‘We the People’ decided it needed to be changed; the process is prescribed by the amendment process. However many in the LW and among the anti gun types have not pursued the remedy, but have sought everyway possible to by-pass that process through other means because they know they wouldn’t be able to muster the votes in Congress or among the states to get an amendment passed. So, as I an many gun rights advocate have suggested, you want a change in the Constitution changed, go for it, pursue an amendment or a repeal of the 2A.
But women are not part of the militia, according to 10 USC 311. Hence, by your logic, they have no right to own a firearm. Period.
In Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16, the Constitution says, "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;" In basic English this clause specifically enumerates the complete power granted to Congress to organize and arm the militia. The have the unfettered ability to decide who gets to be in the militia, and what arms they can or cannot be armed with. If Congress decides that the militia consists of 20 select individuals armed only with hoplite armor and weapons, that's the law. The Constitution was ratified well before Madison even began writing the Bill of Rights. Given this complete power over the arming of the militia, exactly what is protected by the Second Amendment? "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". Congress has the enumerated Constitutional power to infringe the ability of the militia to keep and bear arms through Article 1 Section 8, Clause 16. What right is therefore protected by "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"?
among other things you cannot have a militia that actually is effective unless the citizenry is well armed before the militia is called up
I have seen this contrarian stuff before = tell me how can a right that the founders believed existed since the dawn of time and was not going to be impacted by the creation of the new government, require membership in a government run group to vest? that is a question none of the militia rights advocates (or more relevantly-contrarians or devil's advocates) ever address
And that still doesn't mean that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" is only limited to the use in a militia. I'm glad that I was able to clear that up for you.
If you were a good teacher that was knowledgable you would not find students laughing at your premise...
I served with women, both active duty and in the Texas Air National Guard. Their service isn't compulsory, but they do serve.
