[Number 10 GI]

Originally Posted by Read2know

Dear Gary:
The US Constitution does Not say you can carry a gun. The Second Amendment
does Not say you can own a gun. Here is the quote from the second Amendment :
" A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

When the Second Amendment was written on or about 1789. The USA did not have a standing army and had to depend upon a volunteer's. That is why the Second Amendment states that a, " A well regulated Militia, being necessary ..."
Of course every able bodied man was free to have a gun.
I my humble opinion, our U. S. Supreme Court got it wrong in the District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008. My point is we no longer need a Militia because we have a National Guard and approximately 18,000 Law Enforcement agencies.
It the U.S. now there are 103 people killed every day by guns and and another 210 people which get gunshot injuries. There are to many guns on the street now.
It is my hope that someday our Supreme Court will overturn DC v. Heller.

Wrong on the standing army. The Congress of the Confederation established the United States Army on 3 Jun 1784.