Amendment II of the Bill of Rights:
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.
Reading the words of the Second Amendment, I read that if we as the people are ever going to be able to form our own militias to protect ourselves from tyranny, then our right to bear arms cannot be infringed.
Our rights our inalienable and God-given and cannot be taken from us. That is the spirit that the Founding Fathers wrote these documents like the Bill of Rights with.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Articles Nine and Ten tell me that even though some rights have been spelled out for us in the Bill of Rights, it is not all inclusive and there are rights such as life, liberty, and happiness that even though they have not been enumerated in an ammendment, still belong to the people. So even if some want to deny us of rights because it is not expressly written in the Bill of Rights, they are still our rights. To adequately maintain our freedom, and liberty, we need to be able to protect our homes and our families and no law can disparage this.
In The Declaration of Independence, it lists as one of the injustices of the King of England was that:
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
How can government controlled militias even hold up to this statement. They absolutely render the military, and its powers as superior to its citizens. How is this power derived you say. It is in the bearing of arms. This is our right. Our government has an obligation to uphold the constitution and not try to interpret it. I will end this with a quote from Thomas Jefferson that is pertinent to this upcoming Supreme Court ruling.
Thomas Jefferson didn't believe that the Constitution should be interpreted, as he indicated when he said, "On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning can be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."