[TheRealThing]

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "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.."

It appears to me that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is separated from a "well regulated militia".

As far as our Constitution being a delicate balancing act between rights and freedom and society and the government....that ship has sailed IMO.

We are no longer concerned with that balancing act or rights and freedoms. We have traded our common sense for political correctness.

As long as all the minorities aren't offended and the middle class continues to break their backs in order to support free cell phones, free healthcare and free STUFF to the parasites of society, we will have maintained the status quo that we have learned to accept by doing nothing.

The "well regulated" part is a sort of preamble to the rest of the sentence: it informs the remainder. I would hope we would separate the working poor from the "won't work" poor. A married couple working at a Meijer or a Walmart is going to be right at the poverty line if they have a couple of kids.

Sombrero, you need to calibrate that smoke machine a little bit. Granny has it just exactly right. The militia and the citizen are separate entities. And regulated does not mean to find ones self under a state of regulation. Regulated in this case meant organized and equipped sufficiently to fulfill their duties as enlisted soldiers. The people, are not the soldiers, those are two distinctly separate groups.

And secondly, when I grew up there were a lot of things other kids had that my siblings and I did not. But even young-uns understand that sometimes people and their families are constrained by a lack of money. Adults certainly can grasp that very concept, which understanding in turn provides the motivating force to get off of their whiny backsides and go to work. The so-called working poor are not guaranteed cell phones and the government should not be handing free phones to out them. I know mine cost this household nearly 250.00 a month, and all these special carve outs like phones that the working class is forced to donate by the bleeding hearts of the this government are wrong.


I really wonder when the taxpayers are going to wake up and realize that Democrats and admittedly some Republicans, are extorting their money to buy the very votes that keep them in office. This is the land where equality of opportunity is guaranteed, not equality of earnings, nor should there be plush welfare funding. A safety net is one thing, but when we see food stamps being spent on luxury cruise ships, it's time to call in the dogs.