2nd Amendment Right to Bear Arms v. Common Sense
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
The right to bear arms, like the right of free speech, is a limited right and not an unalienable (absolute) right such as life, liberty and property.
In striking down the District of Columbia's law banning handgun possession (Columbia ET AL. v. Heller) even the most conservative of the justices had to concede: "Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." In his opinion Justice Scalia reaffirmed Cruikshank (1894): "The second amendment ... means no more than that it shall… Continue reading | 32 Comments