I think we could all agree it could have drafted a little more precisely. There is something to your argument that it reflected the idea that militias could be raised more or less on an ad hoc basis from the available citizenry. So they needed to have guns, and back then, the most feasible way to do that was for people to have their own guns. It's perhaps less clear to me than you that this justification is no longer valid. I have a problem however with unelected judges deciding that it is time to sunset a constitutional right. Once you cross that line, where do you stop? It's not like the federal judiciary is plagued by judges who are too timid in exercising their authority. They make up rights everyday, eg that homosexuals suddenly after 250 years have a constitutional right to get married. Like the abortion issue, reasonable people can take different sides on the underlying issue of gay marriage, but removing it from the democratic process by declaring it a constitutional right is the antithesis of self government. It is rule by unelected judicial dictators.
Let me clear a few items up for the some ET brethren who may be getting a bit confused. It concerns 3 (three) issues. 1. Abortion: Abortion is murder. 2. Homosexual marriage: Insanity/Perversion. 3. Second amendment rights: Just read the second amendment. Now...If you will recall, never in the history of our country have these three items been seriously questioned on a large scale, as to my personal opinions (as stated above) until these GODless, twisted, perverted democrats started getting their hold on the USA media as of the past, approximately 25 years. Can anybody see the difference in this country over the past 25 years or so, and how we have fallen into the toilet?
Democrats are wackier. I'll sum up their philosophy: "let's all share what we don't have and give me some while we ignore God"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why do the republican Mike Pence accept (government) needle exchange program when epidemic is present? Why do BSAM poster hate government that protect people? Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak. snip "We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
They have to stop scraping up topsoil. We lose in topsoil the equivalent of the size of Texas every single year. Without topsoil you can’t even grow any food. But people are making money and they’re greedy. There’s no regulation because the Republicans who control those areas don’t want any regulation on anything. They want developers to be allowed to operate in a completely unbridled manner and make as much money as they can — even if that means taking it from other people. --Linda Ronstadt