re: #82 Sol Berdinowitz

As far as I interpret it, the Second Amendment was about allowing states to form their won militias independent of the central government.

I can accept the SCOTUS decision that gun ownership is a personal right independent of militia membership, but we must not overlook the “well regulated” aspect of the Amendment.

But we do, out of NRA paranioa and delusional fantasies about government takeovers.

And this is it right here. The authors of second amendment created it for a world in which many areas were still “frontiers” with little to no organized law enforcement. This was also a time when large bustling cities were NOT common and neighbors were often separate by many acres, if not many miles. In a world like that, the second amendment MAKES SENSE.

Also, the “well regulated” language seems to suggest that even that founders of America knew darned well the dangers associated with guns. They didn’t put that in there just because, they did it to protect people.