Supreme Court and American gun ownership

The Supreme Court, or at least 5 of the 9 justices, upheld the second amendment to the U.S.A. Constitution, which reads,

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Those who want to restrict American access to hand guns read the above amendment as stating guns are only necessary for a "well regulated Militia." Meaning for a state's National Guard unit. Since weapons are provided by the Guard, there is no reason for the populace to own a hand gun.

The advocates for gun ownership read that amendment as indicting it is the right of all Americans to own a gun, "a well regulated Militia," not withstanding.

So goes the debate, which the Supreme Court seems to have settled in its recent decision. The best way to settle this debate is to look to the very men who wrote the 2nd Amendment to the United States of America Constitution. Now understand most of the 55 delegates to the United States Constitution Convention, went on to serve in government in various positions from town councils, mayors, state assemblies, governors, congress, senate, and the office of president. The question to ask is, once the Constitution was ratified and these men ascended to various public offices, why did they not confiscate all the pistols in these here United States? If the 2nd amendment was for only a "well regulated Militia," then after ratification of the constitution, the people who wrote it should have called for the confiscating of all pistols. Why did they not do this? That is because the 2nd amendment was not intended to keep pistols in the hands of the populace for a "well regulated Militia." See, at the time each state maintained armories throughout their states to supply their state militias, meaning personal pistols were not needed to a "well regulated Militia." Also meaning the keeping of pistols and weapons by individual Americans is a protected right not having anything to do with a "well regulated Militia," as the reason was secondary.

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[towely]

So what's the pitchfork for?

Nice video by the way.

[PropagandaBuster]

@towely - Thank you. The pitchfork represents the discontent by the people ready to rise up and vote the bums out

[warewolf435]

what is that song at the end?

i like you points, they are well thought out and expressed

however, i also love playing "devil's advocate", so i will use a rather common response to your question at 4:15 - 4:26 they did not confiscate guns back then because times were different, and people were alot less likely to just go out and shoot one another. Whereas today we have many, many criminals just waiting to get one up on your average joe.

[PropagandaBuster]

@warewolf435 - The song is "The Battle Cry of Freedom," from the American Civil War 1861 - 1865. 

[Springr1911]

I love the pitch fork in the background, you must be a Beck fan.

[PropagandaBuster]

Yes I am a Beck fan. However if you would notice in some of my older videos, I had the pitchfork then. I got the idea from old Frankenstein movies.

[marineninga]

I like this vid because...its....

1. Well strutured

2. Your a good speaker

3. You don't have a crappy back ground

4. Your a confident speaker

5. Seems like you have some kind of script your reading off(GOOD)

6. You don't have uggghhh or arghhh procrastinating words

7. You have done some history research

8. You know of you American History

9. Your Right wing!

[darkelfjst]

Your a moron. I say, let us keep them, because you can't take them. Your in the UK, do you not have murder? No your a 42 year old fart, who dares to judge US politics? Why is that?

More men die per capita then in the USA from knives. Why is that? Because people kill people, not firearms. Seriously, read a book, believe facts, and grow a brain.

[FredericBayer]

Actually, there is a widespread misconception this video propagates: Militia =/= US Army. A militia is an assortment of citizens who, when their country is in danger, organise themselves into an armed front against the attackers. The US Army is, in fact, unconstitutional - the founding fathers wanted a militia, not a military. So the reason they didn't confiscate any guns from civilians was because the civilian gun owners WERE the militia. Hope that makes sense :)

[towely]

@PropagandaBuster Ah ha. I was wondering if it had some sort of symbolic meaning. If it hadn't, it struck me as a very odd place to store such a tool. Keep the videos coming. Though I don't always agree with every point you make(this video was pretty spot on, however) you seem very well informed and I've learned more than I do from watching most of the other Youtube videos out there.

[warewolf435]

@PropagandaBuster many thanks =3

[ryko26]

A witness at today's nevada shooting said it was like something from "a third world country", well they got that right - the USA is the laughing stock of the world - insane levels of gun related deaths but they keep on happening and any attempts to change and become a proper society get shouted down by the morons "UNAMERICAN!" "SOCIALIST!" ad nauseum

[Bushido91328]

Is this the only straight-thinking man in the State of New York?

[firefox8192]

The 2nd amendment does not put any restriction on the ARMS that people can bear. people are not citizens, citizens have privileges granted to them by corperatioin but people have birth rights that are supported by THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES REPUBLIC. WE have been invaded by the politicians that are repugnent to the constitution ie. members of the BAR.