[SIZE=+1]It clearly says that the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infrenged.
..for the purpose of use in the Militia. Thats why the militia part comes first and the right to bear arms comes second.
In 20th century English its says: "Congress shall not ban the right to own keep weapons because the Militia is critical for state security". In other words the principal use of the 2nd Amendment is state security. Thats precisely how the American Revolution was fought. Yeoman farmers talking their weapons with them to join the militia. The 2nd amendment is describing that very practice...
Now in my opinion, (but not others) that doesn't mean it cannot be used for other things like sport, hunting, personal defense et al... But the Constitution is clearly referring to the Militias.
It doesn't state that the Government shall have the right to keep and bear arms. It states the people.
As for the legal right to own firearms. Banning certain firearms from the civilian populace does not solve the issue of illegal firearms. Criminals attain firearm in illegal manners. Stealing them, buying through black market deals, or other means. Criminals will always be armed so why would you restrict the civilians opwnership of said firearms.
Again, where to those guns originally originate from? Black Market Items don't magically appear out of thin air. They are mostly stolen from law abiding civilians.
Under your logic of banning firearms because criminals get them. We should ban [/SIZE][SIZE=+1]automobiles because criminals steal them and use them in crimes. (Cars kill more cops than firearms)
Thats not an accurate comparison. A car, a meat fork, whatever... are tools. Any tool can be wielded as a weapon, but that is not their primary intent. The person who invented the pillow did not design it to sufficate people in their sleep. A Firearm is not a tool. Its a weapon. Its sole purpose is the taking of life, it has no other use. Tools are for construction, weapons are for destruction. They are for two very different purposes.
Here is a little bit of history of gun control in the USA. It took hold after the War of Northern Aggression (US Civil War) to disarm the black population and to keep them under the white man's boot due to Jim Crow Laws.
I seriously hope your joking about this. Under Southern law, slaves were not generally allowed to carry guns (except squirrel guns), for rather obvious reasons (see Nat Turner, or John Brown). You are actually blaming the North for Jim Crow? You're kidding...What's next, blaming the Jews for the Halocaust? What are you some sort of Confederate apologist? Thats a masterstroke in American history revisionism. Come on, get real.
Germany disarmed certain segments of it's society because they knew that if those they deemed were an inferior race were armed that they would not be able to go ahead with the final solution.
Germany disarmed th civilians to avoid a coup d'etat. And from what you are saying it seems like you are blaming the victims. BTW, the Jews that did resist in the Warsaw Uprising got gassed anyway. So armed, or not armed, the result was the same.
If you look through history. Every nation that was evil disarmed it's civilian population. (Nazi Germany, USSR, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, Castro's Cuba, Imperial Japan, etc...)
I don't know how you can draw that conclusion. I can equally prove the opposite as true. Their are plenty of countries that have no gun control that are equally bad. Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, the Middle East. Brazil has no gun control at all and has one of the worst violent crime rates in the world.
An armed society is what makes the difference between a subject and a citizen. When society breaks down. The people cannot wait on hand and foot for the government to come and save them. Hurricane Andrew in Miami FL and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast States have proven that. So has the L.A Riots and the Miami Riots of the 1980s.
Again the opposite is also true. Rio de Janeiro, has no gun control and its a bloody war zone. Rudy Guiliani placed strict gun control in NYC and gun violence dropped 30%. You cannot prove that in any reliable fashion.
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