From the same lovely bunch that found the wording of the Pledge of Alegance unconstiutional.

The <a href=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72371,00.html
>9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Second Amendment does not guarantee individuals the right to bear arms.

The problem must lie in the "new" definition of malitia adopted by the court.

To see what militia ment to us when things were more clear check out "The Unorganized Malitias"

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
-- George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426.



"Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
--Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ....The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."
--Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

"The militia is the dread of tyrants and the guard of freemen."
--Gov. R. Lucas, former Major General of the Ohio Militia, 1832

"The United States should get rid of its militias."
-- Stalin, 1933 (btw, Stalin killed 20,000,000 of his own citizens!)

"As the greatest danger to liberty is from large standing armies, it is best to prevent them by an effectual provision for a good militia."
--James Madison, notes of debates in the 1787 Federal Convention



Militias may be unorganized but they are far from unathorized.

Rob