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Post by choosefoster on Aug 2, 2010 0:38:33 GMT -6
The Second Amendment clearly says that no government at any level within the United States can interfere with the right to keep and bear any weapon.
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Post by loupgarou on Dec 22, 2010 22:47:44 GMT -6
I respectfully disagree.
What the 2nd Amendment actually says concerning the right to bear arms, strictly interpreted, is that one eligible for militia service--and keep in mind that when the Bill of Rights were penned and afterward there was no standing army but only militiamen, and that there were maurauding redskins only a few miles beyond the thin concentration of cities along the Atlantic seaboard--can have a single shot, muzzle-loading, black power firearm. Nothing else did the 2nd Amendment mean at the time.
Yes, that two-faced pretender to strict Constitutional interpretation Tony Scalia liberally interpreted the Constitution to mean that one can own a 17+1 semi-automatic pistol.
Funny how "conservatives" are not so conservative when it comes to thinking up ways to defend their cherished viewpoints.
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