Well, here goes Amendment IV & V Respectively

[Hugh Damright]

Do you believe the Legislative intent by John Bingham and the rest of Congress, by adopting that Amendment back in 1866, believed it was Constitutionally legal after the Amendment passed, for a State to bar a (black or white) person from "keeping and bearing arms" until such time as nine lawyers (at some point in time after 2006) came along and "incorporated" it into being?

Bingham's intent was to apply the first eight amendments of the BOR to the States, someone else's view was that the 14th would only prevent race discrimination such that black and whites would have the same gun laws, and a third person's view was that the 14th was an abomination and the most evil legislation ever considered. The consensus view was that the Amendment fail. So let's not pretend that Bingham's view somehow represented the consensus view.

I reckon that the SCOTUS had a duty to check the despotic yankee Congress which was destroying our form of government at the point of a bayonet. Let's remember now ... first that yankee Congress gave us the Civil Rights Bill, and President Johnson vetoed it as destructive to our form of government ... then that yankee Congress tried to give us the 14th Amendment, but it was rejected ... so them damn yankees just amended our Consitution at the point of a bayonet, against the will of the President, the Congress, and the States. And you ask their intent? Their intent was (is) to rule us at the point of a bayonet, yet the Second Amendment is intended to be a check against such military rule, so I reckon Bingham and his yankee ilk were (are) enemies of the Second Amendment as well as enemies of the Constitution in general. I feel like spitting on the ground every time Bingham's name is mentioned.

By the way, the stench got so bad that Bingham's own State of Ohio withdrew their ratification of the 14th.