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In reply to the discussion: Should America work towards becoming a gun-free Country? [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)is that what's perpetrated by that judge one hundred and fifty years after the U.S. Constitution was written and ratified and became the law of the land, and those who are so incredibly desperate that they'd believe anything, even that justice's interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, just so that they can hug their all-holy weapons of mass destruction a little tighter no matter how many tens of thousands of innocent Americans and American children are gunned down in cold blood by psychopaths who can get their hands on said weapons of mass destruction easier than a black person can vote in most States in this country.
The 2nd Amendment has been corrupted by the NRA, Con justices and judges, and politics although it appears that I need to remind a few gun-fanatics on this site that, at minimum, NOWHERE in the 2nd Amendment does it prohibit Congress from passing gun control laws.
For more than a hundred years, the answer was clear, even if the words of the amendment itself were not. The text of the amendment is divided into two clauses and is, as a whole, ungrammatical: 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. The courts had found that the first part, the militia clause, trumped the second part, the bear arms clause. In other words, according to the Supreme Court, and the lower courts as well, the amendment conferred on state militias a right to bear armsbut did not give individuals a right to own or carry a weapon.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/12/jeffrey-toobin-second-amendment.html
Who is the author of this article? Read Jeffrey Toobin's bio here.
I'd believe Toobin LONG before I'd take anything an anonymous poster on this site tries to tell me with cherry-picked "opinions" of some bought and paid for Justice any day.