[brookstexas]

This is from their website www.constitutioncenter.org search for "guns".
This is the new tourist center much touted in the press. A writer named Linda Monk has the job of translating the Constitution for those who can't read evidently-

"The American Revolution was fought by minutemen, ready with their guns at a moment’s notice. Early Americans believed that a militia, composed of citizen-soldiers, was a better safeguard of their liberties than a standing or permanent army. Today the militia consists of the National Guard, drilling in state units. Does the Second Amendment protect only the right of the states to have militias, or does it give individuals a right to bear arms for self-defense as well as national defense? That question is at the heart of the debate over the Second Amendment and gun control."

This is so far from historical truth it is just propaganda, please write and complain. By the way, where is the NRA????
Spike

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
--H. L. Mencken

Don, what do you and Dick think about doing that Mencken thing?
-G.W. Bush

[foghornl]

By the way, where is the NRA????

Do you mean the Not Really [doing] Anything group?

[Duncan Idaho]

Does the Second Amendment protect only the right of the states to have militias, or does it give individuals a right to bear arms for self-defense as well as national defense?It supports the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

The founders said "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."

Ascribing the right being discussed to THE PEOPLE, rather than to the state(s), just as they did in amendments 1, (2), 4, 5, 9, and as the implied in amendments 3, 6, 7, & 8.

Had they wished to ascribe the right to both the state(s) and the people, they could have done so as they did in Amendment 10.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. So, as anyone can plainly see, the founders possessed sufficient skill with the English language to clearly assign rights to individuals as well as states. In the case of the 2nd Amendment, they clearly chose the former.

One other thing. If the modern National Guard did indeed mimic the Minutemen, or the founder's vision of citizen-soldiers, then said National Guardsmen/women would secure their M-16s, M9s, M249s, etc... at home, or at their place of work, or on their persons, as the Minutemen did.

Linda Monk translator? Leftist revisionist blissninny is nearer the mark. :barf: :barf: :barf:

God I hate liberals. :fire: :cuss: :banghead:

[bogie]

Someone needs to e-mail her about the date of the revolution, the date of the constitution, and the date that the National Guard/Reserves was formed...

[brookstexas]

It's a private foundation, when you look through their sponsors it's clear.
I tried to call and speak to someone but got the old run around and ended up at another voicemail...

[Standing Wolf]

That question is at the heart of the debate over the Second Amendment and gun control."

"That question" is leftist fraud. There's nothing to be debated. The Second Amendment means exactly what it says.