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I want my tax money back. If this is what they teach in civics class these days there is no point going to school. Saritaschihuahua you are 100% incorrect....... but did you go to American public school?
You could also interpret that to say that every State requires a well armed militia in order to ensure freedom.
(I see nothing within that statement which authorizes the Federal Government to establish a military.)
That's because you're looking in the wrong place. Try Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 12.
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It could also be interpreted to say that the people have the right to keep and to bear military grade weapons for the purpose of manning the State militia.
Perhaps the well armed State's militia's were intended to assure the Federal Government could never establish the kind of Tyranny over the States we see today.
SCOTUS says, good luck with that.
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It may well be true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the 18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks. But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change our interpretation of the right.
Heller decision says that the Second Amendment does protect an individual right to own and use guns for lawful purposes, including self-defense.
Yes it does. And it also says that the right is limited, and that it is entirely within the power of the government to ban particular guns that it deems “dangerous and unusual weapons.”
SCOTUS has ruled that the 2nd Amendment doesn't only apply to National Guardsmen. So, that's a moot argument
As ruled by the same SC Justices that were appointed by corrupt politicians, who were elected with blood money from the American gun industry. The Second Amendment in its original intent served this country well for the first 200 years of our history, and thats good enough for me.
Hmmm... I distinctly remember a certain treaty: SALT
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