This is why we need to ban guns!

[Gawyane]

I agree that we do have a right to own and carry firearms. What I don't agree with is the position that the 2nd amendment allows the citizen carte blanche in this matter or that any attempt to regulate, register, license and limit gun ownership is a violation of one's 2nd amendment rights which is what Gawayne was getting at.

Actually that's not what I was getting at at all. But thanks for putting completely false words in my mouth.

I never said that the Second Amendment is carte blanche to own whatever guns we want. I merely pointed out that our Constitution explicitly states that every citizen has the right to own a gun but it is continuously infringed upon. I understand what the first part of the amendment says, but I also understand the rules of grammar and syntax and the comma that separates the "well regulated militia" and "right to keep and bear arms" clauses makes them two separate and distinct parts of the same amendment. Therefore I see it as a well regulated militia AND the right of every citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.