Yes King Brown, an Individual Right was mentioned many times as the Constitution was being drafted, written, debated, and ratified. The words of the 2nd Amendment alone are clear enough King... except for the most anti-2nd Amendment agenda driven zealots like yourself. The other Amendments which include the term "the Right of THE PEOPLE" are never construed to mean anything other than an Individual Right. Why would the 2nd be any different... except for the desires of an anti-gunner like you?
It is anti-2nd Amendment that individuals like you keep distorting and lying about while trying to re-write history. I took the time to provide numerous quotes made by the Framers both before, during, and after ratification of the U.S. Constitution. They should provide clarification to all but anti-2nd Amendment people like you who are in total denial... and who wish to promote a dishonest narrative. Here they are again. There are many more. I challenged you to prove that the NRA invented these or re-wrote history, both here and in past threads. You can't do it... and you remain a dishonest old fraud.
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..."
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790
"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers."
- George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
- Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
"To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."
- George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788
"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.”
– Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”
-Benjamin Franklin
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
- Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823
What Thomas Jefferson is saying in that last one is that your idiotic idea that the Constitution is a "Living Document" is simply another Liberal Left lie. Such a distorted notion would render the document as valueless and expendable as toilet paper. The Framers devised means to change the Constitution, and it does not include lying about the words of the Framers or Liberal Left judicial activism. Your actions here suggest you would rather follow this guideline:
"Our main agenda is to have all guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort the facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Sara Brady
Chairman, Handgun Control Inc, to Senator Howard Metzenbaum
The National Educator, January 1994, Page 3
As for your poor dog, I would have to assume that it was the treatment of other members of your family that made him confident... not prying his damn mouth open and hawkering a couple loogies down his throat as he was cowering in fear of you. That's just sick.
Sincerely,
Selby Lowndes, a.k.a. Jack Schitt... (you don't know Jack Schitt!)
