Comment by PureTrust

Entered on: 9/26/2007 9:09:05 AM

"... the Second Amendment guarantees a "collective" rather than an individual right." [The collective is the whole people of the United States of America. Therefore, the collective is the individual.]

"Moreover, since the Second Amendment protects the people's right to maintain an effective state militia, and does not establish an individual right to own or possess firearms for personal or other use, Young lacks standing to challenge Section 134, HRS." [The militia at the time of the colonial governments was the colonial military that was fighting the government at the same time that it was an arm of the government it was fighting. Today's US military does not match the term militia in the Amendment. Young may need to become part of his own legally formed militia.]