Related:

• In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militia
  while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms....
• 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.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 2, 1791...
• The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
  The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet....
• The Second Amendment doesn't grant the right to keep and bear arms.
  You already have that right. The Constitution just prohibits the government from taking it away from you....
• By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia'
  he 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms', our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy....
• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
  or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the pre...
• No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms.
  The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government....
• Historical examination of the right to bear arms, from English antecedents to the drafting of the Second Amendme
  bears proof that the right to bear arms has consistently been, and should still be, construed as an individual right....
• The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history
  concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner....