Wild week…and beware!  My entire inheritance from my father, should great tragedy befall and he passes on (hopefully long in the future…my dad rawks!) consists of his gun collection.  He’s smart, though…not one of them has the firing pin!

Amendment II

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

What it means:  Due to the need to protect our country from tyranny both inside and out (written right after a revolutionary war, remember?), a well regulated militia will be necessary to protect the country, and as such, no-one may be deprived of their ability to have a weapon to supprt the milita.

Today:  Who can spot the two loopholes here?  This isn’t a protection of the right to have a gun.  This is an attempt to make a local guard to protect local areas, in addition to the normal military.  Armies back in the day tended to move slowly, especially with a distinct lack of fast communication, so local militias usually were needed for protection.  But!  This doesn’t give the right to form a militia…it just gives the right to have weapons to form the militia!  Of course, since it is implied, there are several groups out there that, for want of anything else to do on a sunday, have formed local militias.  They are usually nutjobs with an overinflated sense of selfworth, and are generally ignored by the government up until they start dodging taxes and arming themselves excessively.  As opposed to, you know, them doing something positive with their sundays, like building playgrounds.  Always shoot the person suggesting that we go for life, liberty, and justice while holding a gun, because he doesn’t have YOUR best interests at hand…The second loophole.  Right to bear arms.  Not guns, arms.  Swords were considered arms, as were knives, pitchforks, etc.  Anything that could be used as a weapon.  Guns is merely implied, but that was enough.  The right to own a gun has been upheld consistently.  Whether or not this is right or wrong, well…you have to admit that the national guard makes a pretty kick arse local militia type group.