LRRPF52 Wrote:That someone can conclude that the 2nd Amendment only applies to militias is either willfully ignoring the rest of the Bill of Rights, or has a serious personal issue with freedom for their fellow men.Most people see what they want to see in the 2A, as shown by the number of people in this thread who insist upon "interpreting" it according to what they think/believe was the author's intent, while choosing to dismiss what it actually says. I don't consider them to be guilty of "unjust will" (whatever that means); they mean well, they're just not examining it objectively or logically.
It is only by unjust will that someone sees what they want with the 2A...
Quote:...twisting their mind to interpret it as a collective right, in the midst of very explicit individual rights.I fully agree that it's an individual right. But, as worded, it appears to apply only to those individuals (free, able-bodied, white males of military age) who were required by law to serve in State militias.
What most folks today seem blissfully unaware of is that the Founding Fathers did not consider all of "the people" to have the same rights. Women, Indians, and most blacks, had few or no "rights," and the Bill of Rights applied fully only to land-owning, white men.