Fewer guns mean fewer killings. We want a handgun ban.

[tortoise1956]

94. Some addiotional information:

I ran across an 1840 edition of Story's commentaries. This is called an expanded version of an earlier, brief exposition of the constitution:
https://ia801403.us.archive.org/23/items/afamiliarexposi02storgoog/afamiliarexposi02storgoog.pdf

On page 264, section 450, it has some amplifying information that isn't in the edition that is normally quoted. Here is the entirety of section 450:

The next amendment is, " A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.

Surely this is stated clearly enough, even for j1 - the people have the right to be armed, and this right needs to be diligently protected.

Once again, waiting to see what path will be taken to show that black is, indeed, white, no matter what yer lyin' eyes see...