[Vision2020] 2nd Amendment

[Garrett Clevenger]

Amendment II

"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."



Regulate:

1. to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.

Synonyms:
1. rule, govern, manage, order, adjust, arrange, dispose, conduct. 



Infringe:

1. to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.

Synonyms:
1. break, disobey. 2. poach. See trespass. 



It's kind of an oxymoron (a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect):)

Can something well-regulated not be infringed?


I do know that the 1st Amendment is violated by noise ordinances that abridge freedom of speech.

I would think the 1st Amend is equal to, if not more so, than the 2nd Amendment, though the 2nd does imply the necessity of Militias securing the free state.

It does seem if you can regulate freedom of speech, you can regulate guns. If you lose the right to keep and bear Arms, then I'd say it's illegal.

gclev