I'm not sure why you guys are hung up on the militia concept.

Because that's what it says.

Americans have the right to keep and bear arms, period.

Says who? It's not a god-given right (since there probably is no god). It was (primarily) Scalia's interpretation. Just as the court once interpreted a woman to have a guaranteed right to an abortion. Well, Roe is gone now. Someday, hopefully, Heller and McDonald will be gone. It's only a right because Scalia (primarily) said it was.

Did you think that only militia members are afforded this right?

Yes. Because that's what it says. Members of a government-sponsored militia (not some bunch of yahoos saying "we're a militia"). The states (or feds) can pass laws to allow or prohibit possession of firearms. They could pass laws about licensing, testing, or whatever. As the Constitution was originally written. Scalia didn't see it that way, and -for the time being- this is the law of the land. But give it 50 years. It will change when they realize what a horrible mistake Heller was.

Hopefully, by then, women will have a restored right for bodily autonomy, too. Again, it may take 50 years...but I digress...

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