“The Second Amendment does not give you the right to carry a firearm in public.” [Watch]
What is a “clown like this idiot,” a Trojan Horse?
[Via CP]
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Notes from the Resistance
I’m continually amazed by the ignorance of even some of those in the pro-RKBA community when they find statements like those on the video to be new or controversial. The man was simply restating what SCOTUS ruled in US v Cruikshank in 1875.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/92/542/
“6. The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendments means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the National Government.”
The Second Amendment has since been “incorporated” with respect to the individual states and those governments subordinate to them. So the “shall not be infringed” restriction now applies to them as well.
We’re supposed to know this stuff folks!
Yeah, but quoting SCOTUS rulings is an exercise in futility. All the pols going around today saying that it’s one thing to “let” people own guns, but they shouldn’t be allowed to own “weapons of war.” And yet we have Miller, where the “popular” intrepretation of the ruling is that SCOTUS said that only weapons useful for war were protected by the Second Amendment. And nobody is pointing that out publicly when those pols say that.