And it does, except of course to the extent that the courts will sustain restrictions on the keeping an bearing of arms consistent with settled principles of Constitutional law recognizing permissible grounds to regulate Constitutionally protected rights
You sound like you work for the NRA.
Any attempt to "regulate Constitutionally" my "protected right" is an obfuscation and limitation of said UNALIENABLE right.
Once again, the Bill of Rights (the first ten Amendments to the Constitution) is to protect ME from the GOVERNMENT.
The Government exists to SECURE my rights, not regulate, limit or diminish them in any way.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
Jefferson et al. were students of history, and understood tyranny, despotism, and the ways in which the ruling class worked their magick. The RKBA is specifically mentioned by them for a reason.
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." --Plato
"Republics decline into democracies. Democracies degenrate into despotisms." --Aristotle
"It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them" --Adolf Hitler
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these [United States]; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present [Federal Government] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these [United] States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.” --Thomas Jefferson
“Before all else, be armed.” --Niccolo Machiavelli
