Darksage
Jun 26th, 2008, 05:06 PM
From both a political and personal viewpoint... what are your views on gun control in the United States, and how do you respond to the majority decision of the Supreme Court that overruled a ban forbidding D.C. residents to own handguns?
The text of the Second Amendment:
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 argument was over whether or not the Second Amendment stated that the right to bear arms not being infringed was solely a right of state-regulated militias. In my reading and understanding of the amendment in the past, I always interpreted it as specifying that the right of these two groups, the "regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" and "the people to keep and bear Arms", shall not be infringed, so i more or less agreed with the majority decision of the Court.
The text of the Second Amendment:
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 argument was over whether or not the Second Amendment stated that the right to bear arms not being infringed was solely a right of state-regulated militias. In my reading and understanding of the amendment in the past, I always interpreted it as specifying that the right of these two groups, the "regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" and "the people to keep and bear Arms", shall not be infringed, so i more or less agreed with the majority decision of the Court.