What Does the 2nd Amendment Really Allow Regarding Gun Ownership?

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The forum discussion centers on the interpretation of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, specifically the phrase "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Participants debate whether this amendment grants unrestricted gun ownership to individuals or if it is limited to militia members. Key points include the grammatical structure of the amendment and its historical context, with some arguing for its relevance today while others deem it obsolete. The discussion highlights the complexities of language and the implications of state versus individual rights.

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  • #61
GOooooo Figure!

That figure, the 6.3 Billion people, (Never mind that, I had heard of the '5 to 6' point, somewhere in the early 2000'ths, so since the turn of the century we have added the equivalent of the population of the "United States of America", to the entire World) is probably the clearest reasoning for the need of dis-arming the nuclear weapons of the Entire Planet.

It figures like this, simply, there is no longer a place to shoot at, that you would not be killing "millions" of innocent people, "Weapons (of the) Destruction (of) Innocence" (WDI's)

So now it becomes "No-Nuke'm all", as in let's demonstrate, to ourselves, that we are actually intelligent enough to recognize that the use/need of them, well, they are actually needless!
 
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Oh Yes! one of the Bears in the 'Y'uppers' (pronounced "You purrs") wanted me to remind you all that this is NOT a territorial representation that I make, (as their Lawyer) it is of all of the (Wild) Bear!


I remembered him, as I has slept out in his 'front yard' one night, while traveling across the "Y'uppers", "above the Bridge", the people that I met, later in the morning, asked if I had slept out there that night, told me that I had taken a "risk", cause the place was "Thick with Bears"...never bothered me none, "Blackie" probably didn't smell much more then my tent, as EVERYTHING ELSE was double wrapped in plastic to suppress odors.

(BTW, Blackie {Not his real name, not even in Bear} Says; "HI"!)
 

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