Mass casualty shooting in Orlando nightclub

The people should have the right to bear arms so as to participate as members of a well regulated militia. It seems clear to me. It also seems as a matter of practice that those who used 'arms' to hunt and protect themselves to survive are entitled to possess rifles and handguns.

But tell me that Wyatt Earp is a sissy lefty for banning firearms in Tombstone when the shootings got out of hand

 

Barnie breaks with liberals, as Islamists target the LGBT community.

But, you know why we can't have "significant surveillance" of people identified by the FBI to have radical beliefs?

Because there are too many of them!

 

What political courage, attaching it to a DO A bill

 

I love ya MC, but this statement is patently false.

 

So he's essentially the dad from "American Beauty."

 

That's not what I'm getting at at all. The Constitution endows Congress with the power to call forth militias (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15). Given that, if the 2nd was intended to provide only for an individual's right to bear arms as a member of a militia, there was no reason for it. By that I mean that without it Congress was free to expand/limit/eliminate citizens' arms-bearing in any manner it saw fit ... and with it (under the "only in a militia" interpretation) Congress was similarly free.

 

So now he's a closeted Muslim terrorist!?!

 

State Militias

 

They don't restrict the sale of drugs with pseudoephedrine?

 

Same deal ... Congress had the power to step in and take control of state militias.