I’m a registered firearm owner in Australia, and we do have a “self-declaration” component in our firearms licensing scheme where an applicant must declare that he/she has not undergone treatment for mental health problems in the last 5 years. But it’s simply a “self-declaration”: the firearms registry does not ask for nor seek supporting evidence.
And the S. Ct. in their authoritative and authorized holdings, have been wrong before. The separation of powers and supremacy of the S. Ct.'s rulings do not preserve the justices from making human errors. And I do believe that if we the people disagree with any S. Ct. ruling, that is one reason for amending the Constitution, to impose our will upon the justices, because we are their boss, they are not our rulers. Their job should be uninteresting and not have the same impact as our lawmakers do upon our daily lives, imo.Nihilo:
That’s not what the courts have held. And in our system they are the final arbiters of what is breaking the law.
The whole sentence’s interpretation is in question, every bit of it.
You’re right, every bit of that sentence is contested, even within the legal discipline, which means that even the opinions of lawyers and judges have no more weight than mine or your interpretation. That being said, here’s my own nutshell answers for you:
Not if well regulated means good with a good gun, and always lawfully carrying one.
An artifact of our perverted gun control laws that have perverted the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to bear arms, is that the well regulated militia is forced to be invisible. When we do read headlines about groups that identify openly as “militias,” it’s always bad press, and serves to further fuel further gun control.
We’re just innocent ppl, law abiding citizens. Nothing fancy.
We have the infrastructure for a workable system. As we no longer treat the mentally ill in my state as actually patients, but rather as criminals, the correctional institutions have become the default mental hospitals. As a result, we have a database of all those who have come in contact with the state mental health system, which is pretty much all the seriously mentally ill. Obviously this would only be a start. There would need to be exceptions which could be easily arranged, as the contact doctor is listed, and there would need to be others added, though that too would have holes. This would have prevented the El Paso shooter from obtaining a gun if private sellers were required by law to have this database checked.
They know that full well, and if the Constitution is amended they will rule based on the amended version. Every first year law student knows that. I’m sure the Supreme Court justices know that too.LeafByNiggle:
And the S. Ct. in their authoritative and authorized holdings, have been wrong before. The separation of powers and supremacy of the S. Ct.'s rulings do not preserve the justices from making human errors. And I do believe that if we the people disagree with any S. Ct. ruling, that is one reason for amending the Constitution, to impose our will upon the justices, because we are their boss, they are not our rulers.Nihilo:
That’s not what the courts have held. And in our system they are the final arbiters of what is breaking the law.
No more weight where? In the eyes of God? In US law? Again, what is your chosen perspective?
“The people” in the preamble referred to the people at the time, because it says “in order to form”, and “do ordain and establish”. Nobody today is forming or ordaining or establishing anything. That was completed when the Constitution was ratified. So you are not helping your cause, only confusing it.
Given your low opinion of the SC, I don’t know if you are on board with this ruling or not. I suspect not.
That is a weird definition of “well-regulated” that James Madison and his friends would not have recognized.LeafByNiggle:
Not if well regulated means good with a good gun, and always lawfully carrying one.
What, then, is the basis of the Draft, should we ever need one again?
Sport, hunting, competition, self-defense.
How do you accomplish that in the USA?
We have that in England but I don’t see gun shops on every corner and everybody owning 4+ guns!
Well, unless you inspected everyone’s house, you wouldn’t know that for sure, now would you?
Then allow law abiding people to protect themselves with their own legally obtained guns.
We start by standing up for what is right right and good. We stop letting the media and celebrities tell us what we should think, how we should behave, and how we should feel. We stop the relativistic point of view that everything is truth and everything is good. We bring God back into the homes and back into culture.
I miss those… (sigh)
I don’t see how you are going to convince the American atheists of this.
But will they? American movies are pretty popular in the US making billions of dollars every year. And yet I see this foul language and the use of the name of Our Divine Lord in vain in many PG 13 rated movies and where is the outrage at this? It is non-existent. There are no demonstrations or boycotts of movies using the Holy Name of Our Lord in vain. So there is no guts to stand up to the movie industry and therefore your solution simply will not work.