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I'm again, or should I say repeatedly, shocked by the number of people, on both sides of the debate on gun rights vs gun "safety", who are not familiar with US v Cruikshank. Its as if you came up on an abortion rights advocate who had never heard of Roe v Wade. As "The Sicilian" in one of my favorite movies might say "It's inconceivable." (No pun intended.)
In essence, what SCOTUS said in Cruikshank was that 2A didn't grant anyone anything. It merely recognized that RKBA was one of those rights that Jefferson mentioned in The Declaration of Independence, and 2A merely forbid Congress from messing with it. Jefferson further said that just governments were instituted to preserve the rights of the governed, not to take them away. I'll leave it up to the reader to research what Jefferson said the governed should do if their government slid into the "unjust" category, and further decide, post 1934 NFA, post 1968 CGA, post Lauternberg, and post Hughes, in which category FedGov has placed itself.
Apr 2, 2021, 6:52:54 PM
Posted to Close But No Cigar