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Mark A. Taff
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The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the ability of each state to call up its army. It precludes the new central government from disarming the people of the state. It was not intended by its framers, its framers being the states, to prevent the states from regulating firearms or to frustrate each state’s normal police powers to protect the health and safety of their communities.
An individual’s right to bear arms, to the extent such a right exists, may be based on historical precedent or traditional usage or state law, which precedent or usage or state law can be recognized and upheld by the central government. |
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PHORTO
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Condescending legerdemain.
As was pointed out in commentary, the right is grammatically isolated in the operative clause, which is in and of itself a full sentence:
"The right of the People to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
The amendment specifically brushes aside the 'collective right' argument by its very structure. |
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| Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction. — St. George Tucker, in his edition of 'Blackstone's Commentaries,' 1:300 (1803). |
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