How to Read the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution

[Double Naught Spy]

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.

Hmmm, the courts do not concur and the very founding fathers who penned the document did not concur either, or rather they also immediately violated the 2nd Amendment with the first Militia Act of 1792 less than 6 months after the Bill of Rights, where the right to keep and bear arms was infringed by being made a legally encumbering requirement.

That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder; and shall appear so armed, accoutred and provided, when called out to exercise or into service, except, that when called out on company days to exercise only, he may appear without a knapsack. That the commissioned Officers shall severally be armed with a sword or hanger, and espontoon; and that from and after five years from the passing of this Act, all muskets from arming the militia as is herein required, shall be of bores sufficient for balls of the eighteenth part of a pound; and every citizen so enrolled, and providing himself with the arms, ammunition and accoutrements, required as aforesaid, shall hold the same exempted from all suits, distresses, executions or sales, for debt or for the payment of taxes.

A right is no longer a right when it becomes a requirement.