« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2018, 03:46:01 PM »
You are correct that the Heller case was the first time that the U.S. Supreme Court specifically addressed that issue, but it was always a canard: the ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights are all about protecting the individual rights of the people, the main clause of the 2nd Amendment says the "right of the people . . . shall not be infringed" and nowhere else in the Bill of Rights or Constitution do we interpret "the people" to mean "state militia or national guard".
100% correct. The rights were always there, and they were clearly for "the people." The Supreme Court just never decided to hear and rule on any meaningful argument about the 2nd until Heller. We didn't suddenly just gain an individual right to arms in 2008, we technically gained all our rights BEFORE the Constitution was born- actually at the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the Constitution and Bill of Rights made it very clear, as an instrument to enumerate what the government must, but mostly
cannot do.
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