To LBNinja's ill-informed diatribe, I'd comment that if you read the bill of rights, you'd see the pattern in the language specifically saying the "right of the people" etc, etc.."shall not be infringed upon. This is the basis of the case in terms of collective or individual rights for guns, speech, security, etc.
I don't think I could say it better than the 2 or 3 people above who have clearly schooled you on what the 2nd ammendment reads, so I won't..but I will paraphrase since I can't not say something! lol
"In order to maintain a well regulated militia, the right of the people who make up that militia shall not have their right to own and carry arms infringed upon."
If the bankrupt colonial armies had to supply arms to the militia members when they got summoned for duty, they'd not have a very well regulated militia..nor a very well armed militia. On the other side of the coin, if the militia members couldn't own and use their own weapons for defense in their homes (often on frontier land) or hunt for food, it'd be pretty stupid as well. So it makes no sense that the people would not have the right to have weapons.
Oh yeah, I'm a liberal and I went from being an ass backwards anti-gun lobby fool to a pro-gun fool...possibly a gun-nut one day though my arsenal is small.
I don't think I could say it better than the 2 or 3 people above who have clearly schooled you on what the 2nd ammendment reads, so I won't..but I will paraphrase since I can't not say something! lol
"In order to maintain a well regulated militia, the right of the people who make up that militia shall not have their right to own and carry arms infringed upon."
If the bankrupt colonial armies had to supply arms to the militia members when they got summoned for duty, they'd not have a very well regulated militia..nor a very well armed militia. On the other side of the coin, if the militia members couldn't own and use their own weapons for defense in their homes (often on frontier land) or hunt for food, it'd be pretty stupid as well. So it makes no sense that the people would not have the right to have weapons.
Oh yeah, I'm a liberal and I went from being an ass backwards anti-gun lobby fool to a pro-gun fool...possibly a gun-nut one day though my arsenal is small.