danielpalos
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- Jan 24, 2015
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Only well regulated militia of the whole People, a few public officials excepted, have literal recourse to our Second Amendment when keeping and bearing Arms for their State or the Union, unlike the unorganized militia of the rest of the whole People as Individuals.The mention of a well-regulated militia or its necessity is not a bar to the people's gun rights.Only due to your ignorance since it does mention well regulated militia. That is why nobody takes immoral false witness bearing right-wingers seriously in abortion threads.
So the right to keep and bear Arms is absolute and pertains to the whole people, each and every one of them, without exception or infringement.I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
— George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on
Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788
Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (Illinois State Constitution)