Road Rage at it Best - Good Grief!

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by tstew

Yes, I realize that and that was not really a part of my original thoughts on gun control. I was just pointing out that it is already not as simple as "we have the right to bear arms...end of story".

The right is to both keep and bear arms...the SC made it clear this year what it means to bear arms.

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

The right is to both keep and bear arms...the SC made it clear this year what it means to bear arms.

At the time of the founding, as now, to “bear” meant to
“carry.” See Johnson 161; Webster; T. Sheridan, A Complete
Dictionary of the English Language (1796); 2 Oxford
English Dictionary 20 (2d ed. 1989) (hereinafter Oxford).
When used with “arms,” however, the term has a meaning
that refers to carrying for a particular purpose—
confrontation. In Muscarello v. United States, 524 U. S.
125 (1998), in the course of analyzing the meaning of
“carries a firearm” in a federal criminal statute, JUSTICE
GINSBURG wrote that “[s]urely a most familiar meaning is,
as the Constitution’s Second Amendment . . . indicate[s]:
‘wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing
or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and
ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict
with another person.’ ”

Justice Scalia in the majority opinion.