parados wrote:Oh? really? So then you think the Bush adminsistration is also in a conspiracy to ban arms allowed under the constitution.
Either arms means ALL military arms as you are claiming or it means only those arms used in a militia when the constitution was passed if you want to be a constitutional originalist. Your tortured reading to make it seem that Obama wants to ban guns allowed because they are military in nature is completely indefensible unless and until you want to defend my right to keep a nuclear weapon in my basement.l
This sort of weapon didn't exist when the Constitution was written, and, therefore, there is no clarification about them. There is no basis whatever for suggesting that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to protect Americans' right to hunt. It says that the government may not infringe upon the peoples' right to posess weapons, and one must assume that that's what it means. At the time of its writing, arms pretty much just meant guns. As to whether the Founders would have wanted larger weapons to be allowed is hard to say, because the issue didn't much exist when the document was written, but it is clear that they wanted possession of guns to be a protected right. The Bill of Rights in general limits the power of government to control citizens, and this amendment is likely in the same spirit.