Reply #200: yer shittin me, right????? [View All]

[iverglas]

You say -- forgive me while my jaw drops --

please tell me where "the security of a free state" is found in the US constitution

Well okay. If you insist.

Amendment II

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.

Is there anything else I can do for you??


Apart from that -- isn't it fun when we don't just ascribe ideas to other people that they have never professed to hold?

I, for one, have never ever said that the "right to keep and bear arms" in the US constitution is a collective right. That right, like the right to vote, is a right assigned to individuals in order that the collective entity they belong to may secure and exercise its own rights: security, freedom and self-determination.

I have the right to vote, and it's an individual right. But I don't get to vote willy-nilly, when and where and for what I please.