2nd Amendment

[ReelinRod]

If you consider yourself a constitutionalist and consider yourself in alignment with the founders / framers on the topic of rights, the correct answer is NO.

This poll has been chugging along since November of 2007.

The Supreme court decided Heller in June of 2008.

[TheSpecialist]

Originally Posted by ReelinRod

If you consider yourself a constitutionalist and consider yourself in alignment with the founders / framers on the topic of rights, the correct answer is NO.

This poll has been chugging along since November of 2007.

The Supreme court decided Heller in June of 2008.

Really care to elaborate?

During the events that led to the Constitution being written, it was individuals who were armed, and then joined together to form a militia to fight the British, before Washington even fielded an Army. So I am thinking that is exactly what they meant.

[ReelinRod]

The question cultivates and nurtures a profoundly incorrect belief about the Constitution and the origin of rights.

I do not possess the right to keep and bear arms because the 2nd Amendment "gives" it to me . . . I possess the right because no power was ever granted to the federal government to have the slightest interest in the personal arms of the private citizen.

The acceptance of the anti-constitutional concept that our rights are given to us by government decree is the ultimate insult to the framers and their novel exercise of establishing a charter of conferred powers that recognizes and secures retained rights.

This poll's results are sad testimony of just how far we have wandered from the principles the framers held dear.