freedom1776 wrote:
LEO 229 wrote:
Oh please....
The ownership of firearms is in the constitution. Even if the 2nd amendment can be read two different ways.....
yeah right. you mean just like we have the"right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" (4th ammendment) yet for some reason we have the patriot bill which allows the government to get around this civil liberty by searching suspected terrorists (which terrorist is not defined) and phone taps and them reading our EMAIL. Heck they out to just open our mail for us too.
Give it time and they will find some way to make the 2nd ammendment meaningless just like the 4th.
Sorry that phones and email were not around at the time so they could have quilled that in too.
They can listen in on my phone conversations and read my emails... they can even open my mail. It will be very boring and I am not communicating with any terrorist organization so I could care less. But then... out of all the people they are watching.. I am sure they have no time to check me out.
The 2nd amendment is already viewed this way...
ACLU POLICY “The ACLU agrees with the Supreme Court’s long-standing interpretation of the Second Amendment [as set forth in the 1939 case, U.S. v. Miller] that the individual’s right to bear arms applies only to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia. Except for lawful police and military purposes, the possession of weapons by individuals is not constitutionally protected. Therefore, there is no constitutional impediment to the regulation of firearms.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Miller