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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:54 PM, clhw wrote:

> Washington, DC has banned private ownership of handguns. At this  
> point, the
> transcripts of the Supremes' questionings indicate that the Nine are
> inclined to say that the Second Amendment is supporting individual
> ownership and bearing of arms and that the city and/or state cannot  
> abridge
> that right.

That is what seems to be their position and I am glad of it. Frankly,  
I do not believe that the wording of the 2nd Amendment gives we  
individual citizens the right to bear arms, because, even knowing the  
antiquated way those founders wrote, the sentence, with a comma, ties  
the right to the militias. I think the apparent position of the  
Supremes reflects their understanding that if they ruled against the  
individual right, militia or no militia, they might well foster a  
revolution. An armed revolution.

So they will finesse the written decision to meet, not the meaning of  
the founders, but the will of the people.