“…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

This could be written today as, “…the right of the people to whine quietly and with restraint shall be tolerated.  Government shall reserve the power to beat you like a rented Mule if we get tired of this incessant whining.”

This limitation on the power of government is the one that the tyrants running the governments here fears the most–this is how it should be.  If we are going to exercise the right of self rule, then we have to be dangerous.  We have to let those that would rule over us know hat we reserve the right to stop them.
The supreme Court just made a ruling about guns that the Commies are reveling over.  The case before them was, “Heller V. Washington D.C.”  The Court ruled 4-3 that the people in Washington D.C. have the right to bear arms, but they can be regulated.  Now, those that want to take our power of self rule are using that decision as though our Arms can be regulated over the entire country.  They want to use this ruling to make all manner of laws regulating our arms and ammunition.

Article I section 8 defines the Area we call Washington D.C. and the power of the Federal Government to make laws (legislation) THERE!
“Congress shall have the power;  To exercise exclusive Legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not to exceed ten miles square)…”
(they could even make drugs illegal THERE)

The supreme Court ruling on “Heller V. Washington D.C” determined that the Federal Government could not pass a law curtailing one of our rights even in a district (of Columbia) where they have been granted “exclusive Legislation.”

The Communist are running with this one as if it does apply to the entire country, it does not!  Go back and look again, it’s  “Heller V. Washington D.C.”

“A man who knows and prizes the rights that God has given him cannot be enslaved.  It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.”  Benjamin Franklin

If the citizens of our once great country knew their rights, we would be laughing at the efforts of the tyrants to disarm us.  Here is the meaning of this part of the II Amendment:

“The right”
“10. Just claim; immunity; privilege. All men have a right to the secure enjoyment of life, personal safety, liberty and property. We deem the right of trial by jury invaluable, particularly in the case of crimes. Rights are natural, civil, political, religious, personal, and public.

“of the people”
“1. The body of persons who compose a community, town, city or nation. We say, the people of a town; the people of London or Paris; the English people. In this sense, the word is not used in the plural, but it comprehends all classes of inhabitants, considered as a collective body, or any portion of the inhabitants of a city or country.

“To keep”
“2. To have in custody for security or preservation.”

“And bear”
“3. To wear; to bear as a mark of authority or distinction; as, to bear a sword, a badge, a name; to bear arms in a coat.”

“Arms”
“4. In law, arms are any thing which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another.”

“shall not be infringed.”
“1. To break, as contracts; to violate, either positively by contravention, or negatively by non-fulfillment or neglect of performance. A prince or a private person infringes an agreement or covenant by neglecting to perform its conditions, as well as by doing what is stipulated not to be done.

transgress
“1. To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.”

Now you know what ‘we’ meant by the Second Amendment.

These definitions came from “Webster’s 1828 Dictionary.”  Don’t let anyone use the argument that the Constitution is a legal document so you have to use “Black’s Law Dictionary” to define the terms.  The first edition of that wasn’t published until 1891, fully 100 years after our Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.

Citizen Conway