“I’m saying it right now,” Homan said. “There’s still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.”
DHS has acknowledged that neither of the men who have been shot in recent weeks was the target of the ICE operations that led to their deaths.
A witness reported that Guerrero shouted, “I tried to stop” after being shot by an agent while his vehicle moved forward slowly.
You know what, let’s just go to the source:
One whole sentence.
Which is why there’s an entire field of U.S. law called constitutional law, and why the Supreme Court’s primary role is to decide constitutional questions.
That also means we can infer the Constitution doesn’t specify every type of weapon people should be allowed to own. For example, it obviously doesn’t say that citizens should be able to possess intercontinental ballistic missiles.
What it does mention is “a well-regulated militia.” I think that’s the more important part of the Second Amendment, even though most people focus almost exclusively on “the right to keep and bear arms.”
A free state can, technically, maintain its own military. That context is often overlooked in modern discussions of the amendment.
I feel the same. I’ve tried that angle with gun nuts before. They focus on ‘militia’ and infer that since the founders understood ‘militia’ to mean any able-bodied (white, free, man) that would answer the call to defend the territory, that same must hold true today. They also take “well regulated” to mean ‘hunter’s safety’, ‘handgun registration’, ‘serial numbers’, and ‘hunting licenses’.
The mental gymnastics put Thomas and the other Reich members on the SC to shame. (not really)