Can one of you gun nuts please show me where the word "unrestricted" appears in the 2nd Amendment?

Question

FED UP: Yeah, I didn't think so. Thanks for playing, and thanks for the veiled threat.

(Must make you feel like a big strong man to threaten a woman like that.)

mommanuke: Then you need a dictionary. Regulation is not an infringement of your rights. You still get to own a gun, no matter what you have to do in order to get it.

Answer 1

Everyone of the rights given in the constitution come with restrictions, so the 2nd amendment should not be any different.

I don't know any reasonable people, including the NRA, who thinks there should be no restriction of gun ownership. (e.g. felons and mentally ill should not own guns.)

Answer 2

The primary purpose in the 2nd amendment is defense against tyranny.

i understand that you can't comprehend going against a tyranny so large and so powerful, you merely lack the courage. The 2nd amendment exists for those who don't. You can't struggle against tyrants who shoot grenades and fully automatic m-16's at you with a .22 single shot rifle.

What they are doing is not so much restricting the types of firearms although they have banned civilian ownership of all fully-auto's. and demonized the word semi-auto which naive know-nothings think means 'really evil' when in reality it means NOT automatic.

What they are doing is restricting the types of people who can bare arms, to fit a demographic of people determined non threats not just about criminals.

the list of people excluded from owning firearms is rather frightening, it includes anyone who has EVER "renounced citizenship" even though firearm ownership is allowed for non-citizen legal residents thus proving the goal in gun control is to increase the governments hold on the people.

Also felons of any type are excluded, why? because having been victims and personally enlightened of the government persecutions may perhaps be more-likely to seek change.

Answer 3

The Founding Fathers could not have envisioned the extraordinary lethality and deadliness of modern weapons. Nor are we threatened by a colonizing power as we were back in the 18th century. The 2nd Amendment needs to be amended again.

Answer 4

NO Right is absolute!!
I agree with you on that.
However, would you agree that the first Amendment need not be applied so liberally, and the second so strictly?
In other words, first Amendment rights are so big, you could drive a truck through it, while second amendment are the size of a pinhole. Hope that analogy made sense.

Answer 5

The 2nd amendment is about forming and joining militias and not about owning guns.

Answer 6

Read the Militia Act of 1787.(still on the books as law)
All citizens are in the militia ( the legal base for the draft ) and are REQUIRED to provide their own arms and ammo.
Said arms and ammo are to be consistent with those commonly in use by the military.

Answer 7

I also wonder where people come up with the idea that gun control will disarm the public. Restrictions are meant to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have criminal records. Thus my conclusion is the 'gun nuts' are either mentally ill or have criminal records.

Answer 8

What's wrong with self defense??

Take the folks guns away, and you will start a new world war.

Don't try it.

Answer 9

I think everyone should be required to own, maintain and use a Brown Bess flintlock (as long as the bayonet lug is removed)...

Answer 10

The correct wording is "shall not be infringed". That sounds like unrestricted to me.