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> Gun ownership is baked into our founding documentation Not in the way that NRA nor gun rights activists think nor claim. 1. The Founding Fathers were devote
by Maursault 4y ago
> Gun ownership is baked into our founding documentation
Not in the way that NRA nor gun rights activists think nor claim.
1. The Founding Fathers were devoted to the militia.[1]
2. The amendment’s primary justification was to prevent the United States from needing a standing army.[1]
3. The authors of the Bill of Rights were not concerned with an “individual” or “personal” right to bear arms.[1]
4. The Founding Fathers were very concerned about who should, or should not, be armed.[1]
Anyone wishing for a return to an original meaning of the Second Amendment — where no one was a professional soldier, but everyone would be required to participate in the militia — would find themselves far from the political mainstream.[1]
If you want to make an argument about founding documents and classical interpretation, that's fine, but then we're going to be required to adopt the Framers' intent (which is undeniable as summarized above when examining the minutes of the Constitutional Congresses), and ignore and remove any subsequently introduced individual right to bear arms,[2] and gun owners will be required to join the National Guard. I am all for it.
And I'm not sure why in this ruling "tradition" is given so much weight. There was no tradition of personal rights to arms until well, well after the turn of the 20th Century, so the NRA was very late to invent this tradition.[2] If 1968 is not old enough for tradition, then how is it that 1950 is? Is the 13th Amendment in jeopardy of being a violation of the somehow new legal supremacy of tradition?
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/02/22/what-the-second-amendment-really-meant-to-the-founders/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/...
[2] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-nra-rewrote-second-amendment https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-...