What the United States Supreme Court Says

[John56{vg}]

I am a gun owner, a Remington 30/30 Deer rifle, and a Browning Automatic Shotgun that was my dad's. And my basic belief is that the polivce and military should not be the only ones with guns.

However, I am for gun control. TO me the NRA is more radical than the gun control folks that want a total ban. All guns should be VERY hard to get and fully automatic assault rifles should be banned.

It is just tragic to me when (and I read about this a few months back) a child can reach into her grandmother's purse, pull out a handgun and shoot herself with it.

The part of the Bill of Rights that the Supreme Court forgot was the "WELL_REGULATED" part of the amendment. Having a gun SHOULD be regulated and you should have to be trained in gun safety and licensed somehow.

My opinion here, of course.

[Virulent]

The part of the Bill of Rights that the Supreme Court forgot was the "WELL_REGULATED" part of the amendment.

I don't think they forgot that part. They just realized that it needs to be constructed as two different topics... topic 1, "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state", topic 2 "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".

What the SCOTUS has finally affirmed is this disjunction; the people need not, and never needed to be, engaged in a militia in order to bear arms.