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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (2017)10/10/2000 3:56:28 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
"Private arsenals" is a loaded term, if you'll forgive my choice of words. It's inflammatory. How does one define an arsenal? Where does a gun collection end, and an arsenal begin? My dozen or so assorted firearms - do you consider them an "arsenal"?

I noted earlier that you consider "the people" of Article Two to be abstract and collective. There you and I have a basic difference of opinion. I don't think that anywhere in the Constitution is "the people" used collectively or abstractly. Substituting "the citizen" for "the people" imo does not cause a drift in the intent or effect of the amendment.

As for the militia thing - this is important, Cos. The phrase about the militia is (imho, but emphatically imho) not a condition of RKBA, but an illustration of its soundness. The Montana National Guard is a militia, but not the only one. Refer to your U.S. Code and find a much broader definition of militia. I needn't have a uniform to be a duly constituted member of the U.S. militia. My voter's card does that.

Whether the framers intended us to have privately-held thermonukes is a topic that calls for more and better beer than I have on hand. It could be compellingly argued both ways. My opinion (worth whet you're paying for it) is that we do not have an absolute Constitutional right to possess destructive devices, like grenades on up.

But it is sobering to consider that the muskets that the Minutemen owned and used in the 1770s were the most advanced infantry weapons of the day. By simplest extension, a Stinger missile should be publicly available.
With all due licensing, registration and restriction on use, of course. Using one on New Year's in an airport terminal control area would be, like, totally bogus.
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