Originally Posted by Richard Stringfellow
It seems peculiar to me that auto registration and voter registration are constitutional, while gun registration is unconstitutional. Perhaps the Constitution doesn't guarantee the right to vote.
Mike, I support your right to own a gun, even though I doubt you will ever be involved in a well-regulated militia. I support that right because I support your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Do you think you might possibly become a member of a well-regulated militia?


Richard,

Citizens register to vote so they can be counted. There's a Constitutional mandate that votes be counted. Citizen's don't register guns, there's a Constitutional reminder that they have a right to own them (the right existed long before the Constitution was in place).

I doubt if I'll ever have to fight as part of the militia that the Constitution says is necessary. I am willing, however, and as a gun owner, am able. Let's look at the entire second amendment:

"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." The right that I have to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, why? So we may preserve a militia, which the dictionary defines as: "an army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers." And why do we need this army of ordinary citizens? for "the security of a free state." In a free state, folks are personally responsible for their security, who maintains our security? We do. It is to be a well regulated militia, what regulates it? The Constitution regulates it, it proscribes the rights and duties of a citizen which the militia must not violate. It was this same militia that created the freedom and independence that allowed the Constitution to be adopted. Now, it is to protect us since, as we've seen according to the Supreme Court, it is not up to the police to protect us...it is up to us. Personal responsibility. It's another way of saying "liberty."


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