ara
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K3 and others
Good posts. A lot of knowledge of our constitution is presented here. Well done.
K3: If I may expand on your comment ("...too dense to understand the the entire purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the citizens from the government,") the Bill of Rights and the entire Constitution before it were designed to severely hamstring gummint within some pretty narrow bounds.
Those bounds began to be thrown off very quickly in the early, early days of our Republic.
The interesting thing to me about the wording of the Second is this: despite the order of phrasing in the Second Amendment it is clearly structured in such a way as to make the ending clause, that being "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," of primary and indispensable import in the entire amendment.
The clause referred to above has to exist in practical reality before the part about a well-regulated militia takes its first feeble breath. Without a unified people who already keep and bear arms there can be no pool on which to draw to form a militia.
Both "keeping" and "bearing" arms are covered under one singular right that cannot be separated without another amendment that supercedes the original. Note:", the right (singular) to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
There are actually certain Nimrods who argue that SCROTUS, in still more attempts to illegally revise the Constitution, has held that these are actually two rights to be toyed with independently of one another. If you have followed the generally contemptible rulings of SCROTUS this will come as no surprise and simply serves to again point out the Constitutional enemy that SCROTUS actually is.
Some people over in the Legal section like playing with words too much. It is to the never ending detriment of civilization that lawyers are permitted to play with words in public. Remember that.
Between the "Untied" Nations, SCROTUS and our renegade 110th Congress we have a full plate in protecting our God-given right to serve as our own "First Responders," since we individually are always the first on scene when crime befalls us. Always.
The Second guarantees that our pre-existing right to keep and bear arms is first and indisputably the right of every responsible citizen to be and to stay armed.
Anywhere.
Anytime.
Warmest regards,
ara
Good posts. A lot of knowledge of our constitution is presented here. Well done.
K3: If I may expand on your comment ("...too dense to understand the the entire purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the citizens from the government,") the Bill of Rights and the entire Constitution before it were designed to severely hamstring gummint within some pretty narrow bounds.
Those bounds began to be thrown off very quickly in the early, early days of our Republic.
The interesting thing to me about the wording of the Second is this: despite the order of phrasing in the Second Amendment it is clearly structured in such a way as to make the ending clause, that being "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," of primary and indispensable import in the entire amendment.
The clause referred to above has to exist in practical reality before the part about a well-regulated militia takes its first feeble breath. Without a unified people who already keep and bear arms there can be no pool on which to draw to form a militia.
Both "keeping" and "bearing" arms are covered under one singular right that cannot be separated without another amendment that supercedes the original. Note:", the right (singular) to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
There are actually certain Nimrods who argue that SCROTUS, in still more attempts to illegally revise the Constitution, has held that these are actually two rights to be toyed with independently of one another. If you have followed the generally contemptible rulings of SCROTUS this will come as no surprise and simply serves to again point out the Constitutional enemy that SCROTUS actually is.
Some people over in the Legal section like playing with words too much. It is to the never ending detriment of civilization that lawyers are permitted to play with words in public. Remember that.
Between the "Untied" Nations, SCROTUS and our renegade 110th Congress we have a full plate in protecting our God-given right to serve as our own "First Responders," since we individually are always the first on scene when crime befalls us. Always.
The Second guarantees that our pre-existing right to keep and bear arms is first and indisputably the right of every responsible citizen to be and to stay armed.
Anywhere.
Anytime.
Warmest regards,
ara
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