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Will the government attempt to ban private gun ownership again?
In 2008, D.C. vs Heller, the Supreme Court actually debated weather or not the 2nd amendment allowed citizens to keep guns.
Will something like that happen again?
6 Answers
- Gray WandererLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
What gets me are those who can't or won't read the Second Amendment, they just see the word "regulated" and assume that arms are what are to be regulated. The Founders put "a well regulated militia" in the Second Amendment for a specific purpose, which was to make clear that the original reason for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms was so the government would stay in the hands of the people.
The MILITIA was what was to be regulated, not arms, not the people.
a. A well regulated militia—The goal
b. being necessary to the security of a free State,—The reason for setting the goal
c. the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.—The means of accomplishing the goal.
The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms is to provide the People a means to Regulate the Military (Militia).
This is spelled out in a quote from one of the authors of the 2nd Amendment, Tench Coxe;
"Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
The National Guard is a select militia, like the Second Amendment was passed, in part, to defend against.
"Congress may give us a select militia which will, in fact, be a standing army – or Congress, afraid of a general militia, may say there shall be no militia at all. When a select militia is formed, the people in general may be disarmed."
-John Smilie
You will find some who believe the founding fathers never intended for every citizen to have a gun, but they are either ignorant of the rest of the Bill of Rights, in which "the People" means every citizen has that right, have never read the preamble to the Bi8ll of Rights, or they are too busy parroting the talking points to actually realize what they are spouting.
I will never understand how people interpret "Bill of Rights" to mean "Bill of a Restriction on the people and Some Rights"
- Mike WLv 79 years ago
Yes, there are some who seek to disarm the citizens under the misguided notion that doing so will make crime disappear. The 2nd Amendment doesn't allow citizens to keep and bear arms, it prohibits the government from taking away that right.
- DoubleLLv 69 years ago
Not possible.
And SCOTUS overturned the CD law banning gun ownership as being unconstitutional (which it obviously was).
- Smoking JoeLv 79 years ago
The argument is never over ownership, whatever your fake source told you. It's about what sort of regulations are reasonable, as in 'WELL REGULATED' which is right in the 2nd Amendment.
Source(s): You guys can dance around that all you want, but it's true - there is absolutely nothing in the 2nd that says gun ownership should have no regulations whatsoever. Pure fantasy bull****. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- CharlieLv 59 years ago
I'm almost certain that attempts like this will continue in the future, however let us pray they don't succeed.
- Anonymous9 years ago
The UN is trying to. FACT
Source(s): Stop the UN Gun Ban