Imagine being so cucked by the Russian-funded NRA that you won't even support reasonable gun safety measures, murder after murder, mass shooting after mass shooting. We just have to live like this, forever.

Republicans. Are. Scum.

You can always count on the usual leftist idiots to show up on a gun thread.
#16 | POSTED BY WILLOWBY

It's a gun thread? There may be hope for you yet.

Unfortunately the Second Amendment makes that outright illegal or practically unworkable.

I correct you on this a lot, but the Second Amendment is not the problem; the Federalist Society's new, bad faith, NRA-friendly, judicially imposed interpretation of it is.

I don't understand your position. Do the people have the right to keep and bear arms or not?
The constitution seems to say they do. Is the constitution wrong?
And if it is wrong, it's OK to just ignore it, right?
#29 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

The Second Amendment says that people have the right to keep and bear arms in the mandatory context of a well-regulated militia. This was interpreted by virtually every federal court to consider the question from the Amendment's inception through the year 2000 to mean that it conferred no rights upon a citizen to own a weapon if it had no connection to a "well-regulated militia." The notion that everyone in the US can own a gun because the 2nd Amendment says so is a relatively new, novel, and completely bastardized reading pushed by the NRA and FedSoc judges.

Really?

Yes, really.

But if you don't believe me, or are going to insinuate that what i said is not true, please go peruse federal case law on the Second Amendment dating from 1789-2000 and let me know what you find. I'll be waiting. My guess is for quite a while.

So at the time of the drafting of the constitution, arms were only legally kept in order to support militia actions?

That's not what i said at all; you're a piss-poor reader. What i said was merely that the Second Amendment was generally not interpreted by federal courts to affirmatively confer a right of private weapons ownership unless the weapon in question had some nexus to a well-regulated militia.

There is a difference between the Constitution granting someone a specific right and someone merely doing something anyway because no other level of government has decided to prohibit it. For example, the Constitution doesn't explicitly say you have a right to pretend to be stupid on the computer. You just do it anyway.