(July 24, 2015 at 3:50 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(July 24, 2015 at 3:38 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Humans have rights, but objects do not.
And the second amendment gives Americans the right to own those objects.
Actually, the 2ed Amendment, as currently interpreted by a Supreme Court heavily influenced by conservative ideology and the weapons manufactures, has decided that Americans have the right to threaten everyone around them with concealed but instant death.
However, an amendment whose first four words are “A well regulated Militia...” could easily be interpreted to allow for any regulation that protects the public safety. Indeed, the next phrase of the Amendment “being necessary to the security of a free State, supports just such an interpretation. A state where everyone is constantly threatened by heavily armed individuals; in schools, in movie theaters, in churches could, and should be, seen as a state where freedom has been compromised.
As to the last bit “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” The “people” granted the right to bear arms is the same “We the people” of the Constitution. A society formed with the idea of pursuing life, liberty, and happiness. Being gunned down in a movie theater or a church prayer meeting, by a madman who was allowed to own a gun because that is what the gun manufacturers demanded from the government, could, and should be, correctly be interpreted as the kind of thing the Constitution, and its Amendments, were written to prevent.
As it stands the current interpretations of the 2ed Amendment are in stark contrast to the intent of those who wrote the Constitution. But what else to expect from a government that, long ago, sold itself to the highest bidder. And there are no higher bidders than those who profit from violence, war, and death.
