3 ms·
Peaceable is certainly not set in stone, and you're welcome to your interpretation, but a reasonable alternate interpretation is that you have to comply with th
by andrewla 7y ago
Peaceable is certainly not set in stone, and you're welcome to your interpretation, but a reasonable alternate interpretation is that you have to comply with the idea that owning certain armaments is de facto non-peaceable.
It would be very easy to revisit Heller in this light and say that gun violence is a problem in DC, and thus owning a handgun is a non-peaceable act in itself.
- jki275 7y agoThere's no support for that viewpoint anywhere in the text of the 2nd amendment, nor is there in Heller.
- andrewla 7y agoIn this case we are living in the alternate reality where Samuel Adams's proposal was adopted into the text of the consitution. I'm arguing that his phrasing would allow for more restrictive gun laws than the current 2nd amendment. So using his quote to defend a less restrictive gun policy seems counterproductive.
- tomschlick 7y agoI disagree. The violent actions of others don't make your action of exercising the right to protect yourself inherently violent.