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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (245499)8/19/2005 12:07:36 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575767
 
There's no chance the gun community would lose the freedom to own guns, with it written in the constitution.

Courts can get creative in their interpretation of the constitution. In this case they would decide that even though the 2nd amendment says "the right of the people...shall not be infringed", that the fact that it mentions militia means it only protects the rights for the militia. Than they would take "well-regulated militia" and interpret that to mean something like the national guard or a militia controlled by the states. Entirely unreasonable, but it could happen despite the fact that neither the words of the amendment nor the intentions of its writers would support such a ban.

Tim
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