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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (133089)3/23/2001 2:21:57 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Have you read the 2nd amendment? In case not, here it is:

"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".

Clearly, the intent of this is to protect the citizens right to raise and keep a Militia. Militias at the time were necessary to stop the threat of foreign invasion.

Clearly the first clause makes no statement that allows or forbids anything or directly modifies the second clause. It acts a rhetorical support for the second clause. The second, or active clause is simple. "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Note the right of the people, not the right of the militia or any state body. Even the militias of the time where not like today's national guard but where people who used there own guns when called out.

Tim
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