Another one who doesn't think the Second Amendment means what it says. The founders of this country weren't stupid, if they'd wanted it that way, they could have perfectly well said that "the right of the government to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", or "the right of the state militia to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", but they didn't. They said, "the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". The people, as in individual people. It's very clearly an individual right because they could have said it so many other ways if they intended to. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government. -- This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty... The right of self- defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Whenever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction. - St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1803) ( From which U.S. laws regarding the RKBA ( Human Right to Keep & Bear Arms ) derrived )
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