re: #86 SanFranciscoZionist

Well, the right of the people to keep and bear arms presumably does not exclude nuclear arms…

I always recall a story I once read about a U.S. or Brit unit going through some area in Afghanistan some years back, doing a cash-for-weapons trade. One man had a Soviet tank in his yard, and he wouldn’t sell it to them because it was a trophy of war taken by his late brother.

Brother must have been one hell of a fighting man, that is ALL I have to say about that.

I personally believe that the ‘well-regulated militia’ aspect is important to a good understanding of the second amendment, and have a whole little plan for local militia organization based around that, but heck, I don’t know if I want the Richmond, CA militia to have a nuke…it would probably be fired off on New Years Eve, just to celebrate.

I honestly think that there is no provision to limit what weapons an American citizen may have according to the 2nd Amendment, nor was any limit meant or implied by those who wrote and ratified the Amendment. I think that this Amendment was not primarily to allow grandpa to go kill a turkey nor for a civilian National Guard. It was written so that citizens could arm themselves adequately and organize to resist and defeat tyranny both domestic and foreign.