Bill Of Alleged Rights: Alleged Right # 2

   This is your second right: your right to have this sentence above "interpreted."
   These 27 words comprise, apparently,  the most complex and confusing sentence ever created. Not one man educated in the wonders and mysteries of Law and Government has been able to say what this sentence actually means, for some reason. This sentence is apparently the most obtuse and confusing sentence ever composed. The Rosetta Stone was easier to decode.
   You would think this sentences means you - you reading this - can own weapons of war. Militias fight wars. They fight foreign invaders. Invasion by people from other countries shooting at you warrants the calling out of the militia to fight them. The militia is "the good townspeople." It's the members of the community who can enter combat without having a heart attack or a stroke or breaking all their bones 'cause they left the wheelchair. It's the militia. The fighting men of the country. The people prepared to fight the enemy by shooting back. With the weapons of war.
   At the time these 27 apparently incomprehensible words were written the weapons of war were muskets and cannons. Eventually the weapons of war included tanks and atomic bombs. The 27 words - if we are to take them seriously, as all Americans certainly do for some reason - logically - one would assume - protect the "right" of Americans to have tanks and atomic bombs.
   Well, it doesn't. And no American except me would deign to ever think it does. That is just too much liberty. That is taking liberty to an extravagant something. To an extravagant degree. To an extravagant length. To an extravagant width. It's too extravagant an extravagance of liberty. It's, like, ya know, too extravaganted.
   There are too many interpretations of this simple sentence for me to itemize them all, but basically there are two warring sides in all of this, the side that says citizens should not be armed - that is one of the interpretations of the 27 words, that what they mean is "No American citizen can own firearms." Sentence interpretation is not a strong point in Americans' lives. They are not good at figuring out what simple sentences mean. And the people they elect to Officially Interpret things For Them have an even harder time doing it.
   The other side in this debate is of the opinion that Americans may own firearms only. No NRA member thinks that Joe down the street can own a completely armed and operational F-16. Or a hydrogen-bomb tipped Saturn 5. That is taking the 2nd Amendment too far.
   So in other words, both sides of the controversy agree with each other in principle: there is a limit to the weapons arsenal a citizen may own. The details are being worked-out constantly and without let-up, the side favoring the limited ownership of weaponry losing more and more ground all the time, since they - the NRA, for instance -  can never agree on what weapons a person should never own. The other side, meanwhile, is united in their belief: no one should own any weapons. They actually know what they are fighting for. The "gun rights" people, on the other hand have no idea what they are doing.
   As the results, as the years go by, clearly show.
   The American "militia," by the way, is no match for the Pentagon's army. Which if turned against the American citizenry as the police routinely are - would result in the devastation of the citizenry, armed as they are with pistols and rifles only.
   So, to sum this all up, the Second Amendment is either just some random words that are gradually being rendered completely meaningless OR the Second Amendment actually says "No citizen shall possess arms."
   The direction of the flow seems to be favoring this last "interpretation."
   How is that 2nd Amendment working out for you? - just out of curiosity. Working out the way you like it? Not working out as you would like? Well, just stick with it, citizens, because the 2nd Amendment is too important a right, whatever right it actually is, to be taken lightly, or worse, to be taken with sarcasm and snide commentary. Remember, people died so that you could have the 2nd Amendment. So it must mean something. And someday, the good Lord willing, and if we all work together in unison and harmony, we will all figure out what it actually does mean and how we can use this new knowledge for the betterment and happiness of all humanity, both on this planet and on any of the others that humanity can be found at or in or on.