To: one_less who wrote (696600 ) 2/1/2013 6:18:33 PM From: Alighieri Read Replies (4) | Respond to That single notion is exactly what the Bill of Rights was founded on (fear of government encroachment on human rights). I would love to see any argument to that point if you have one. I think I have already addressed that. Simply stated in one word, “infringement,” specifically with regard to the 2nd amendment. (2) Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. Pp. 54–56.
