re: Shooting at Orlando gay club: 50 Dead, 53 Injured, Shooter is Radical Muslim

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No it isn't. There were two prevailing theories; the individual rights interpretation and the collective rights interpretations (plural because there were two distinct legal theories there "original" and the "sophisticated"). The 2008 v Heller case settled that, all nine SCOTUS justices held that the individual right interpretation is the correct reading (5-4 is the split of the scope of that interpretation). There is no longer any rational reason to think there is an interpretation that makes the 2nd Amendment only apply to those serving in militias.

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I haven't read that case or the opinion, but I imagine that there is a rational reason to think there is an interpretation that the 2nd Amendment applies only to militias since 4 of 9 Supreme Court Justices appear to have dissented from the decision to the contrary. That seems like the very definition of "rational reason."