1ºPaul DeMaida repeal 2A? Ok, read Article Five of the constitution and see what that will take. Also, you have to repeal 4A because that says that government doesn't have the right to know how many toasters I have, let alone guns. Then it's off to 5A which says government cannot confiscate property without due process of law. Then comes that pesky 14 A which not only repeats what 5A says about confiscation, but also says that no state can pass a law that abridges the privileges of the people. Keep in mind that they couldn't pass an amendment that says everyone has the same rights. Have a good day.
2ºPatrick Neuls In US v Cruikshank,1876, SCOTUS recognized that "The right there specified is that of "bearing arms for a lawful purpose." This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." The decision recognized the right of two former slaves to keep a bear arms, two men who were not in the militia, would not have been allowed to be in the militia, in a state where the militia had been disbanded.
Without the recognition of an individual right to keep and bear arms, Miller, whose entire appeal was based upon that right, would have no standing to have his case reviewed by SCOTUS.
There have been six major pieces of gun control legislation passed by Congress, all prior to Heller: NFA 1934, Gun Control Act of 1968, Firearm Owners Protection Act (including the Hughes Amendment) of 1986, the Brady Act, the Assault Weapons Ban and the Lautenburg Amendment.
The word militia isn't mentioned a single time in any of them. The words "individual", "person" and "citizen" are repeated hundreds of times.
In 1982 the Senate published a bipartisan report entitled "the right to keep and bear arms report" that affirmed an individual rights viewpoint.
In 1990 in US v Verdugo-Urquidez SCOTUS affirmed: "...it suggests that "the people" protected by the Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments, and to whom rights and powers are reserved in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, refers to a class of persons who are part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community."
The right to bear arms has been recognized as an individual right in the US since 1776.
3ºBrian Rittall
Glenn Dowdy
Very rural areas are exceptions to the rule and are not representative of all. Do you think guns in schools in cities or the suburbs in the 70’s would have been a good idea? No. And I can guarantee you it wasn’t allowed in any shape or form in most places. Most gun clubs at schools were canceled by then.
The number of guns has doubled since the 1970’s to over 400 million. Fear has been a big factor in the increase in sales of guns, something the manufacturers and the NRA has relied on as a selling point.
https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2021/brief-history-guns-us