“They are looking only to protect gun owners’ quote ? and I stress that ? rights, because I don’t believe gun owners have rights. The Second Amendment has never been interpreted that way. Now I am not for taking guns away or denying guns to law-abiding citizens, but I don’t think it’s a constitutional right that they have, and every court case that’s ever come down has shown that.
-Sarah Brady, October 1997

Oh, really?

“The Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense… And … these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.”
-Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. v. Miller (1939).

“… ‘the people’ seems to have been a term of art employed in select parts of the Constitution. The Preamble declares that the Constitution is ordained, and established by ‘the people of the the U.S.’ The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear Arms ….”
-Supreme Court of the United States., U.S. v. Uerdugo-Uriquidez (1990).

“‘the people’ protected by the Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments… refers to a class of persons who are part of the national community.”
-Supreme Court of the United States, Presser v. Verdugo-Urquidez (1990).

“Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be.”
- Supreme Court of the United States, Westbrook v. Mihaly 2 C3d 756

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