Reply #80: There are three entities in the 2nd Amentment [View All]

[krispos42]

The militia, the state, and the people. The second part of the 2nd Amendment expliciatley states the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

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.

We get very upset when the Bush administration does legal gymnastics to try to get around the 4th Amendment (among others). We say "look, it says it right there! You need a warrent!!!". Then many of us Democrats start doing the same handsprings and leaps when it comes to the 2nd Amendment.

Virtually no Republicans and only half of Democrats want to clamp down on guns in this country. It's an issue that serves only to divide Democrats and to be a wedge issue by the neocons. And it cost us in 1994, and because of it it's been costing the country ever since. Let it rest! Concentrate on 2006!