- 14 Feb 2021 15:48
#15156823
The right to keep and bear arms is not inalienable.
Arguing over state's rights or individual rights, prefatory or operative clauses, whatever, does not change the fact that the Amendment was seen as a bar only to federal action, not state or private restraints.
Because the District of Columbia is a federal enclave, the Court did not reconsider its prior decisions that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states.
"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" Orwell
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The Resister wrote:as per gun control
The right to keep and bear arms is not inalienable.
Arguing over state's rights or individual rights, prefatory or operative clauses, whatever, does not change the fact that the Amendment was seen as a bar only to federal action, not state or private restraints.
District of Columbia v. Heller
Because the District of Columbia is a federal enclave, the Court did not reconsider its prior decisions that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states.
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"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" Orwell
E l/r -10 : L/A -7.64