Gunning for your Rights; Will the Men In Black Choose The Constitution?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008It’s a REALLY big day for those of us who know we have the right to bear arms for protection. The question is, will the Supreme Court Justices side with the people & the strict constitutionalists? Or will they go the way of the revisionist historians who have twisted the phrase from the first amendment which reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” to mean that Christians, Christian values, or Religion itself, should have no say in Government, which of course is bunk, since we have throughout much of our nation’s history sworn in our officials on the Holy Christian Bible, marked our court documents with the phrase “in the year of Our Lord ” (Drives insane liberals even more insane) ect..
If the Justices do their job without prejudice, the following constitutional phrase will be confirmed as an individual right to bear arms: “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.”
Revisionist historians will try to say of course that a “militia” is not an individual. This is of course not true. If you look at the definition below at the Merriam-Webster definitions, you’ll see that not only does the first definition (a.) call a militia “a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency”, but the latin also defines it simply as “military service”. This means that even if the “militia” argument is used, we are still individual components of any militia, with a right to bear arms. There is no definition in the Constitution that defines how many people must be in a militia, or even how many militias may operate within a given state.
Main Entry: mi·li·tia
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, military service, from milit-, miles
Date: 1625
1 a:a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency b: a body of citizens organized for military service
2: the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service
It then follows that if you look at the definition of “military”, it’s also clear that any individual can indeed fit the bill.
Main Entry: mil·i·tary
Pronunciation: \ˈmi-lə-ˌter-ē\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin militaris, from milit-, miles soldier
Date: 15th century
1 a: of or relating to soldiers, arms, or war b: of or relating to armed forces; especially : of or relating to ground or sometimes ground and air forces as opposed to naval forces
2 a: performed or made by armed forces b: supported by armed force
3: of or relating to the army
So in conclusion, it’s clear to me that we do indeed have a right to bear arms as individuals. Nothing the Supreme Court says will change that fact, but rather my prediction is that their decision will just be another factor that state militias will likely use to determine whether or not they should mobilize against rogue forces in our government. I don’t think any sane person would want that to happen, so the hope is that the court will not agree to infringe upon the rights of United States citizens. It would be a very dangerous trend to follow for this country. ~Dan Lee