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An Opinion…..
I'll start by what it doesn't mean. The
2nd Amendment of The Constitution of the United States of America;
….does not give me a right to have guns for
hunting.
….does not give me a right to
have guns for self-defense.
….does not
give me a right to have guns for sport shooting.
….does not give me a right to have guns
for collecting.
….does not give me a
right to have guns because I want to.
….does not give me a right to have guns
to make war.
What The 2nd Amendment of
The Constitution of the United States of America does mean to me, is
simple…..me, being part of "We The People", give the government certain
limited powers, of which the government powers we instill, shall not infringe
on me keeping and bearing arms.
The 2nd
Amendment simply states, the government shall not, as part of it's limited
powers, We The People entrust it with, place any restrictions on my God given
right, as a free born man (read "woman"), to own and use guns.
The framers included in the 2nd Amendment the
word "right", because they correctly recognized, We The People, already had
that right and the protection from the government was, the government could not
"infringe" on that right.
The Constitution of
the United States of America does not give rights, it preserves rights We The
People already have. The framers recognized the importance of We The People to
"keep" (own) and "bear" (use) "arms" (guns) as instruments of use, for
protecting our freedoms, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
The framers did not include hunting,
self-defense, sport, collecting or war, in the 2nd Amendment because, their
blanket statement of "keep and bear arms" (read "own and use guns"), "shall not
be infringed" covered all these purposes. In other words, there doesn't have to
be a reason, the reason We The People own and use guns, isn't under question,
because these are rights we already have.
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