time was any male who was healthy was considered a member of the militia. so every citizen is part of the militia by the definition of the constitution. i understand that. i m talking about the well-regulated part. i m a militiaman in that regard. i m not questioning the militia part of it. i am talking about the regulation part of the constitution that for some reason everyone seems to forget. hold on. and that s my second point i m going to get to here. we re not forgetting about that. for example machine guns have been illegal in this country for a hundred years. of course no right is absolute. we know that. we know, for instance, that you can surrender your rights, for example, the right to vote if you re a felon, in the case of guns, if you re a felon the right to own firearms. if you ve had domestic crimes, you lose your right to arms. don t speak for the president. where do you get the idea he s
i m talking about the well regulated part, well regulated. i m a militia man in that regard. i m not questioning the militia part of it. i am talking about the regulation part of the constitution that for some reason everyone seems to forget. hold on. that s my second point that i m going to get to. no, we re not forgetting about that. for example, machine guns have been ill legal in this country for 100 years. of course, no right is absolute. we know that and we know, for instance, that you can surrender your rights. for example, the right to vote if you re a felon. the case of guns if you re a felon, the right to own fire arms. if you had domestic crime even if it s not a felony, you lose your right to arms. a perfect example, i m fine with talking about and so is the president, expanded background checks wait a second, steve. don t speak for the president. where do you get the idea that he s okay with expanded background checks? he s run away from it several times. no, w
ruling a few years ago in the heller case. this goes back to 1791 at the time of the bill of rights including the second amendment was ratified. it goes back further than that. my next question if you re a literalist, an original intent person, why do you ignore the militia part of that phrase of that sentence? it s all in one sentence. yes, it s all in one sentence but we re also told the right to bear arms exists. the need for a militia makes the right to bear arms. there is also the need for a militia. it didn t say also. it doesn t say also. the way the early militias were formed was that the individual citizens having arms exercising their right to bear arms were able to come forward with their own guns with their own ammunition. why did they even say militias was a right in itself? why bring it up? if the original intent was just to give people the right to bear
joining us from cairo right now. so arwa, he s been criminalally charged by the u.s. justice department. what was he like when you spent an hour or two with him in libya? reporter: well, wolf, first of all he also said that he would, in fact, be willing to sit down with the americans as long as it was a conversation similar to the one that we had had and not an interrogation. he was fairly relaxed. he showed up with around half a dozen members of an islamist unit, a militia part of the security forces. the libyan authorities, he said he has a fairly close relationship with a number of senior commanders amongst the libyan security forces. he was altering between being relaxed at times, though, getting a bit aggravated with our questions. especially when we were pressing him on specific details about what happened the night of the attack. he most certainly does not deny
office took issue with. what do you say if any changes first of all, isn t the constitution clear, juan williams? what part of the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed the supreme court recently talking about the heller case the chicago case. the heller case is the d.c. part of it, but in the chicago case reaffirmed the right of americans to own guns. i disagree with the militia part, but apparently the supreme court, this court thinks that it s part of is there any part proposed now that would have prevented the tragedy in newtown? well, i think that given adam lanza s mental state, and. sean: mental health issues and mother shouldn t have left him near a gun. i m an extremist on this point because i think that someone, if the mother applied should have said, who is in the house and access to guns. i think someone like you, sean, would object to that. sean: i think in in her case, those