Second Amendment. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "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."
No debate.
Constitution and Law scholars disagree with you. As does the Supreme court.
2ND AMENDMENT IS TWO PARTS:
"First, that the proposed new Constitution gave the federal government almost total legal authority over the army and militia. Second, that the federal government should not have any authority at all to disarm the citizenry. "
"Yet the Amendment was easily accepted because of widespread agreement that the federal government should not have the power to infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms, any more than it should have the power to abridge the freedom of speech or prohibit the free exercise of religion." (Constitution Center)
The 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
"Thomas Jefferson penned these words in the Virginia Constitution of 1776: "... No free man shall be debarred the use of arms within his own land." (James Madison Institute)
The James Madison Research Library and Information Center
"Thomas Paine, renowned for his treatise,
Common Sense, urged religious pacifists to take up arms in his pamphlet
Thoughts on Defensive War:
... The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become a prey to the strong." (James Madison Institute)
The James Madison Research Library and Information Center
"Indeed, it was President George Washington who urged the first Congress to pass an act enrolling the entire adult male citizenry in a general militia. The father of our country further urged that "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined."
Benjamin Franklin:
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty not safety."
Now for the Supreme court's latest ruling:
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008)
"The
Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed."
I can go on if you wish...
