Posted April 30, 2018 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The anti-gun left desperately wants gun control to be a thing. However, the plain text of the Constitution often thwarts them in debate after debate. “Shall not be infringed” is about as clear as it gets.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Our rights are infringed left and right when it comes to the Second Amendment. However, all that infringement is why so many of us refuse to give up any further ground on the subject of gun rights. We’re just not going to budge.

But the anti-gunners continue to try and make the case, hoping they can sway not just the undecideds, but maybe even some on our side by claiming gun control really is constitutional. And the mental gymnastics they engage in is really quite impressive.

The Second Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights because of concern that a standing army might pose a threat to the security of free states, thus the inclusion in the amendment of the language “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state.”

For more than 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood that it did not restrict or prohibit federal or …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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