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@jamesbaxter9975 Hmmmm, all the other 10 Amendments are specifically about individual rights and rights of the people, yet you think the 2A is not. Have you ever even looked at the 1800s SCOTUS rulings on it, let alone subsequent rulings?
"The people's right to bear arms, like the rights of assembly and petition, existed long before the Constitution, and is not "in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." This ruling also upheld that all able bodied males are members of the militia (one of three such clear rulings).
U.S. v. Cruikshank, 1876 92 US 542, 553
"All citizens capable of bearing arms constitute the reserve militia, and the states cannot prohibit the people from keeping and bearing arms so as to disable the people from performing the (militia) duty to the general government."
Presser v. Illinois, 1886 116 US 252
"Individuals have a right to possess and use firearms for self-defense."
U.S. v. Beard, 1895 158 US 550
In 1897 the Supreme Court ruled that the right to arms is an "ancient" and "fundamental" right, a right which was "inherited from our English ancestors" and has existed "from time Immemorial."
Robertson v. Baldwin, 1897 165 US 275
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