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NY: Second Amendment explained for the masses
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Mark A. Taff
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The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the ability of each state to call up its army. It precludes the new central government from disarming the people of the state. It was not intended by its framers, its framers being the states, to prevent the states from regulating firearms or to frustrate each state’s normal police powers to protect the health and safety of their communities.
An individual’s right to bear arms, to the extent such a right exists, may be based on historical precedent or traditional usage or state law, which precedent or usage or state law can be recognized and upheld by the central government. |
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PHORTO
(12/24/2021)
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Condescending legerdemain.
As was pointed out in commentary, the right is grammatically isolated in the operative clause, which is in and of itself a full sentence:
"The right of the People to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
The amendment specifically brushes aside the 'collective right' argument by its very structure. |
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You are bound to meet misfortune if you are unarmed because, among other reasons, people despise you....There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed. In the latter case, there will be suspicion on the one hand and contempt on the other, making cooperation impossible. — Niccolo Machiavelli in "The Prince." |
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