Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Government has coercive powers. The people are threatened by those powers, but have rights, when redressed, which are recognized individually; in fact, the government is Required to recognize them individually in 4A. Why would this explicit recognition of an individual right within or of a "peoples' right" in the Fourth, somehow be different in the other rights?
The people have a RKBA that is necessarily individual. They are also subject to the laws governing militia (fed and state), which government concedes is a check on its "self." How would government's self-recognized check have any vitality if the RKBA were NOT individual, but instead conditioned, circumscribed, and subject to redefinition by a clause that is in reality that check? It can't.
The militia clause is not a poison pill to an individual right.