Olbermann: 2nd Amendment Doesn't Authorize Gun Ownership

OLBERMANN: “So think about the All-Star game. Think about the Denver weapons stash a block away, which was either an interrupted All-Star game mass shooting or an interrupted non-All-Star game mass shooting, and consider again the whole Second Amendment to the Constitution and ask yourself this question: Why doesn’t the Second Amendment have the word 'own' in it? Why does it not say 'the right to own guns' or any synonym for 'own'? Why does it just say a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed'? 'Keep and bear,' not 'own'. Keep doesn’t mean own, bear doesn’t mean own. Yet by the same kind of logic that made lots of us breathe sighs of relief, because maybe nobody meant to shoot up the fans at the All-Star game, our nation has been covered neck-high in this bullsh*t that the Second Amendment makes gun ownership not only illegal but sacrosanct. 103 times the Constitution uses words like 'ownership,' 'value,' 'purchased,' 'receipts,' 'property,' 'private property,' but not once does it do so in the Second Amendment, because the Second Amendment isn’t about gun ownership, it’s about regulation of state militias.“