Light up a cigarette in public, and you get thirty days in jail and fined 500 bucks. Socialism.
"Socialism?"
How about "Democracy".....or "Representative Republic"?
Jeff - I understand that, but unless I am misunderstanding Fran, the Stevens argument is that the only"right" granted to individuals was to serve in a state militia if it became necessary.
That is why I am asking for clarification from their perspective then as to why the additional phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" was added if the framers were so careful and deliberate in their wording. It would seem to be unecessay and ambiguous if Steven's argument was valid, but maybe I am missing something, at least from "their" perspective.
You just exceeded my mental capacity. Good questions, Jack. I don't know the answer(s). And.....I can't speak to Stevens "frame of mind"
or even to whether or not his argument WAS "valid" in his dissent. It appears he was overruled!
For the "average Joe" gun owner......he basically thinks that the 2nd amendment says that the US Goverment has no right to take away his guns. In reality.....as simplistic as that sounds to the strict constructionist......it IS as simple as that. The USSC said so, last week.