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On 7/29/2012 2:45 AM, Just Wondering wrote:
>>
> The Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights.  It is a
> constitutional recognition of some (not all, as the 9th Amendment makes
> clear) of the most important INDIVIDUAL rights.  Yes, it begins with a
> reference  to a militia, but the operative language says "the right of
> the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."   And who are
> "the people"?  Obviously, "the people" are not limited to active
> militia.  They are the same "We the People of the United States"  who
> "do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of
> America. "  Thus, using standard English rules of construction, the
> literal meaning of the amendment does not limit the right to militia
> members.

It's one sentence.
"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."

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free 
state," is a subordinate clause.

The rules you want to use say that "the right of the people to keep and 
bear arms shall not be infringed" is part of a single sentence and that 
it could be written as

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed 
BECAUSE a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free 
state."

But perhaps you think the people who wrote this were stupid?
Why else would they write what they did when they could have said.
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

And why are you guys so quiet about *real* weapons?

Perhaps it's because the recent move towards seeing guns as they are, a 
health hazard might lead to taxation of all weapons, not just machine guns.