Use and Abuse of the 2nd Amendment

Some elements of the U.S. Constitution have been bandied about of late, so some details  need to be clarified.



Some elucidation comes from Article 1 (the Legislature), Section 8 of the US Constitution:

Clause 13: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

Clause 14: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress

Insurrections and repel Invasions;

Clause 15: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such

Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the

States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the

Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

The Constitution, Article 2 (the President), Section 2 Paragraph 1:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States…



The Bill of Rights, Amendment Two, reads:
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 Militia Act of 1792 defined and, with the benefit of multiple updates over the centuries, still defines what is meant by the word militia when used by the governments (state and federal) of these United States... Currently it means only the National Guard, Military Reserves and the State Guard Units.



Anybody can call their group a, “militia,” but they are not the, “Militia of the several States,” referred to in government documentation.



Confusion was rendered by a decision (Heller v. District of Columbia) in the Supreme Court of the United States, Chief Justice John Roberts presiding, in 2008. In more than two preceding centuries there had been no such confusion.



It is a mystery to me how one comes to believe that somewhere in those words a singular noun or pronoun exists, let alone the idea of defining an individual’s right to, “keep and bear arms.”



This is where Texans find the individual’s right to, “keep and bear arms.”
The TX Constitution, Bill of Rights, Article 1, Section 23:
RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful defense of himself or the State; but the Legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.



Some day we, the People, will elect a legislature with the intestinal fortitude essential to rectify the confusion mentioned above by passing rational gun regulations into law. This will save tens of thousands of American lives every year!



Register, check your voter registration, and Vote in every election!!!



Voting is the only way we get and keep Democracy in the USA!