A federal judge recently ruled that AR-15's are not protected by the 2nd ammendment of the US constitution. Thoughts?

@BizSuitStacy it also says for a well-formed militia. seen anyone marching lately?

@ladycae the prefertory clause is not dependent on the operative clause. SCOTUS ruling in Heller v DC. If it truly meant having to be in the militia like gun grabbing mushheads love to parrot, why why did former chief justice Stevens try to change the language.

Try re-wording it. "A well balanced diet being necessary to a healthy society, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed." Do you think that this means you don't have the right to food if it's not part of a well balanced diet?

@BizSuitStacy It also says regulated.

@Graylight see above. And eat lots of fiber so your bowel movements are well regulated.

@BizSuitStacy maybe scotus got it wrong? and it's not written about food it's written about guns.and just like food is regulated to keep you safe guns need to be regulated to keep us safe. no one but a cop needs an ar-15. bunny tastes bad when you shoot it 15 times. hey, your right food has a lot to say about guns. and yes you brought up regulated since scotus has picked and chosen what they want let's all go for regulated, guns need to be regulated.. and again, you seen anyone practicing marching drills lately that ALL gun owners participate in?

@ladycae the 2A has been studied for years. SCOTUS got it right. The well regulated militia is necessary for the security of a free state. That has nothing to do with an individual's right to self defense. That's the operative clause.

The bit about food highlights the fact that two concepts are being addressed in the 2A.

Do you know why law enforcement has chosen the AR-15?

@BizSuitStacy I like the diet quote. You should have helped Scalia with that one.

@BizSuitStacy i know little about law enforcement it has never touched my life but please don't feel you need to educate me because[b] idc[/b]. what i care about is school shootings and innocent children dying in the street from stray bullets. i am interested in gang violence that robs our young men of their lives and their freedom and how the drug business kills thousands not buy overdoses of drugs but by overdoses of bullets. i care that we have too many guns in this country that are not needed for hubnting of food. and i care that no one in this whole debate can give me a good reason why john q. public even needs an assault rifle. i have seen them mounted on the back of trucks, why? just to be the big man with the big gun. there is no good reason for anyone but cops to use them.

@ladycae John Q. Public doesn't have assault rifles. Those are heavily regulated by BATFE, and banned for those mabufacturered after 1986. You said you don't care...and that's the problem. You haven't studied the facts. You only parrot the gun control narrative. Maybe if you opened your mind a bit, you would realize that gun control is a massive failure at every level. You might actually know that 90% of firearm homicides are committed by felons...people already prohibited to having a firearm, yet get them anyway.

No one owes you a reason why they own an AR-15 or any other legally owned firearm, so get off your high horse. Firearm ownership is a right.

Too many guns? Well, since 1993, firearm homicides are down approx. 50%, but during that time, the number of firearms owned legally has nearly doubled. Hmmm...more guns, less crime. That's just a fact that gun grabbers conveniently fail to acknowledge.

But here's the real question I want you and the rest of the gun grabbing ilk to answer. How is taking away the rights of law abiding gun owners going to make anyone safer?

again a gun advocate can't answer why john q. public would need an assault weapon. why am i not surprised? i know all you spewed, i just didn't want to hear you spew it. but you did anyone. the ar-15 and other high magazine guns are still legal to get. take your sanctimonious ass and poke an ar-15 in it. . until one gun rights idiot can explain why joe average even needs an ar-15 i don't want to hear anything else.

@ladycae its the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs or the Bill of Other Peoples Opinions or the Bill of Stuff Until Children Complain. It's nobody's fucking business but mine how I exercise my Rights; certainly not yours.

@ladycae and once again a gun Grabber that doesn't understand how the Constitution works. We don't have to justify why we need a gun you have to justify why we don't need them and you can't.

@Graylight the only noun subject to regulation is the Militia. The People, and their right to keep and bear arms is specifically exempt from infringement.

@redredred The amendment was also created in part to bridge the gap until a standing army could be formally organized.

@Graylight The founders had no intention of creating a standing army. They did not trust them because governments had historically turned standing armies against their citizens.

@BizSuitStacy They did create one.

@Graylight the key word is "standing" meaning full time professional soldiers, ready and available even during peace time. A true standing army did not truly exist in the US until after WWI. There were federal armies prior, but they could only be raised for 2 year periods, and then had to be renewed. were the result of calling upon the militias. Honestly, why aren't people learning history? It's a rhetorical question...I know why.


https://www.fff.org/2013/03/04/gun-control-and-the-dangers-of-a-standing-army/

@ladycae Doesn't matter that the burden of proof is on the moronic faction of society that thinks banning firearms magically fixes the problem - which it will not. Doesn't matter that owning firearms is a right protected by law. Doesn't matter that our politicians swear to uphold and defend the entire constitution (not just the parts they agree with). No, no...the queen has spoken. She demands answers. Oh...and what she doesn't tell you is that no matter what answer is provided, it's up to HER to decide if that answer is adequate. That dear queen is the prototypical, tyrannical response that led our founders to drafting the 2A to begin with!

Your sphincter is cutting off the flow of blood to your brain. Pull your head out of your ass before it's too late.