Comments on: Alaska Second Amendment Patriots Rally

By: CarryTalk.com » Episode 13, living up to its number.

CarryTalk.com » Episode 13, living up to its number. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:02:02 +0000

[...] Alaska: We don’t get many stories from Alaska, or Vermont for that matter, but we have an Alaskan story this week. The citizens of Alaska are invited to a Second Amendment Patriots rally. Read the article for more information. [...]

By: CarryTalk.com » Episode 13, and it lived up to its number.

CarryTalk.com » Episode 13, and it lived up to its number. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:21:36 +0000

By: B. Johnson

B. Johnson — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:03:24 +0000

Will somebody please explain the following to me? Given that the Founders had intended for Congress to have only those powers expressly delegated to it by the federal Constitution, where does the Constitution delegate to Congress the power to regulate civilian firearms regardless of our 2nd A. protections? Although several of the clauses in Sec. 8 of Article I clearly give Congress the power to regulate military-related arms, there is no constitutional statute that I can see that expressly delegates to Congress the power to regulate civilian arms.

In fact, even before the 2nd A. was ratified, people such as James Madison argued that a federal BoR was unnecessary. In other words, because of Congress’s constitutionally-limited power, an amendent like the 2nd A. was “redundant” because the states never expressly delegated power to Congress to regulate civilian arms in the first place.

So aside from PC interpretations of the 2nd A. by pro-gun elimination federal lawmakers and judges, so-called public servants who evidently don’t understand the constitutional principal of expressly delegated powers, what am I overlooking concerning the significance of the 2nd Amendment?