Our Framers didn't envision a free state with the current level of government control.
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution reads, "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."
For a while, some argued that the so-called "prefatory clause" — "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" — somehow limited the "right of the people" to something having to do with a militia. In its recent opinions of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court has made clear that the Second Amendment does recognize a right of individuals to own guns, and that that right is in no way dependent upon membership in a militia.
That seems to me to be entirely correct.
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Anyone but me ever wonder if by "the free state" they meant to preserve the individual state of freedom, as opposed to the state of say Maryland remaining free?
ReplyDeleteNope, but well said.
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