Will the Second Amendment survive?

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-02-2007, 01:42 AM

A couple of points should be raised for those who haven't studied the matter. One, it is difficult to imagine how to exercise the collective right without also exercising the individual right, especially since the militia sections of the USC, USC Title 10 Secs. 310-311, and the texts of the precedent Militia Acts, presume the militia would do any shooting with arms privately owned by the citizens; and two, scholars acknowledge the Amendment acknowledges an individual, not a collective, right and the language admits of no other accurate interpretation. Some might misread the opening dependent clause, but it in no way modifies or restricts "the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." [Comma as in original phrasing, the overpunctuation has excited comment for some time.]

12-02-2007, 01:42 AM	#3
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	A couple of points should be raised for those who haven't studied the matter. One, it is difficult to imagine how to exercise the collective right without also exercising the individual right, especially since the militia sections of the USC, USC Title 10 Secs. 310-311, and the texts of the precedent Militia Acts, presume the militia would do any shooting with arms privately owned by the citizens; and two, scholars acknowledge the Amendment acknowledges an individual, not a collective, right and the language admits of no other accurate interpretation. Some might misread the opening dependent clause, but it in no way modifies or restricts "the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." [Comma as in original phrasing, the overpunctuation has excited comment for some time.] __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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