No. If I go into my backyard and start shooting at a target, even though it may be safe, I will be arrested.
One must go to a firing range in the city. There is just too much danger, otherwise.
Yes, just like yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater is not an exercise of free speech. The principal behind the right to bear arms is like the sentiments of the founding fathers who believed that men / the nation should "walk softly and carry a big stick". If you don't have the right to defend yourself it's because you are effectively a slave.
Ultimately the phrase goes :
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State
So, because for the security of a free state, a well regulated militia is necessary, the militia being men who are citizens but trained in the techniques of weapons and war, that these militias are well regulated. Also, the militias are meant to protect the state, which is why a sherrif can deputize individuals, with the understanding that they had been trained by the militia (the assumption and it's my understanding that almost every man was considered part of the militia between 18... can't remember the upper limit, 40+ tho)
Yes, the comma here is absolutely crucial as it ties the next part as the condition...
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms
So, because of the first thought, that being the protection of a free state, the right of the PEOPLE (not the right of the 'militias' ) to keep and bear arms. That is to have them accessible to yourself at any time, and to use them if necessary.
This is a comma seperater
I mean you could write it :
So, because of the need for protection, and the necessity of militias, the PEOPLE ALL have the right to keep and bear arms, to ensure the FREE STATE, AND BECAUSE of all that, these rights SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. If you make someone jump through a hoop you are 'infringing' on that right because he should not have to jump through that hoop. Protecting yourself is a god given right...
It's so clear cut when you look at the way the sentance was worded... the constitution and bill of rights says what it means and means what it says...
Can someone in Chicago just get this idiot Daley out of office already? Besides the fact that this zero has been in office for over 20 years - an obscenity in and of itself, all he is doing is wasting taxpayer dollars with these moronic rules over which the city will be sued and forced to overturn:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/07/01/us/AP-US-Chicago-Gun-Ban.html?_r=1&hp
"Chicago Mayor Offers Strict Gun Rules
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 1, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) -- With the city's gun ban certain to be overturned, Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday introduced what city officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in the United States."
Daley, isn't that the name of a chicago mob boss???
Why / how was this guy elected in the first place?? Did nobody do a background check on him or his family?? (Unless the answer is no to the first question)