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Quote by: banko  A quick question about the 2nd amendment. Doesn't it violate a person's constitutional rights to have any sort of gun control? I mean the amendment doesn't say that ex-cons can't own them, or that insane people can't. It states that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. So isn't any gun control measure infringing upon that right? |
The Second Amendment contains an important precondition to gun ownership---"a well-regulated militia." Do militias or armies employ medically diagnosed mental patients? Do they all ex-convicts to join? "Well regulated" means capable and trained gun owners. I don't think George Washington and Thomas Jefferson foresaw a Second Amendment right for Charlie Manson and the VA Tech murderer.