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Politics : Libertarian Discussion Forum
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To: chalu2 who wrote (3664)5/15/2000 12:49:00 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 13062
 
<<what type of limitation or proviso does it place on the rest of the language?>> None whatsoever. At the time the amendment was adopted, there was no militia but the whole of the armed citizenry. The Second Amendment acknowledges a "well-regulated militia [is] necessary for the security of a free state." It does NOT go on to say that the right of the militia to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. As to regulated by whom: the framers meant that the militia shall be regulated by ourselves, organized by ourselves, and led by ourselves. Chief Justice Earl Warren: "Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies... ... thus we find in the Bill of Rights Amendments 2 and 3, specifically authorizing a decentralized militia, guaranteeing the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and prohibiting the quartering of troops..." These questions are indeed as simple as I make them out. It is you and HCI and the like who are confused.
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