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NE: Second Amendment protects right
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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“… Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose …”
The Supreme Court is the final word on what the Second Amendment says. Not the NRA, with its bumper sticker distortions, and certainly not our governor or some county commission. |
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PHORTO
(5/2/2021)
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The author misses the point.
He is correct that the 2A was enshrined to insure that state militias could not be disarmed, but it didn't create the right nor limit it to the militia. It assumed the right as preexisting and endowed on the people by natural law, and it could not be infringed.
Scalia's Heller reference, “… Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose …” referred to "dangerous and unusual" weapons, not those in common use by the public.
The author's assertion that Scalia's opinion was incongruous with the NRA's view is pure nonsense. |
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| Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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