How to Read the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution

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In light of a recent thread it has occurred to me that most of us do not understand the Bill of Rights or the Constitution and thus read it incorrectly.

Concur.

It was necessary to allocate Rights from the Individual to the government so to have a functioning society where the Rights of the Individual were protect. In order to do this the Founders crafted the Constitution where the Rights taken from the Individual and allocated to the government were specifically defined.

Well, so much for the notion that rights are unalienable (i.e., cannot be taken away).

Therefore the appropriate manner in which to read the 1st and 2nd Amendment is that the government in no uncertain terms does NOT have the Right to regulate speech or firearms.

As we know there are no absolutes.

Second sentence contradicts the first. (And the courts have ruled that the government can regulate both speech and firearms.)

This is why we have to understand the principle Rights laid out in the Declaration of Independence and how the 1st and 2nd fit into it. Speech is a subset of our Right to Liberty and Bearing Arms are subsets of our Right to Life (property) "Arms" and our Right to Liberty "Bearing".

The Declaration of Independence does not divide rights into categories and subsets of categories.
It says that the rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are "among" the rights given to us.

Thanks for taking the time to consider the perspective from a Mechanical/Systems Engineer based on logic as I understand it.

At the risk of being undiplomatic, I must say that your understanding of logic seems a bit flawed.