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U.S. President in ABC Prime Time: ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in Constitution and ‘So Was Slavery’
newsbusters.org ^ | 10-9-2014 | Brent Baker

Posted on 10/09/2014 12:49:58 PM PDT by servo1969

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To: WayneS

Yes, the Founder’s always intended it for it to end.


61 posted on 10/09/2014 3:01:46 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Slavery was common around the world at the time.

Some people like to say slavery was the foundational sin of America, but that makes no more sense than saying the horse and buggy was the foundational mode of transportation of America.

It simply just existed in many places around the world at the time.


62 posted on 10/09/2014 3:11:29 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: ilgipper

“Where is that slavery clause again?”

Right after the gay marriage clause. :-)


63 posted on 10/09/2014 4:28:47 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

re: “NP. Not trying to be a nit picker but....oh just call it one of those things that grates on my optic nerve when I see it. I must learn to walk away from the keyboard at those times. =;^)”

Totally understand, and I don’t think you were nitpicking. It was a valid point that we need to remember. Our rights do not come from the Constitution, they are supposed to be protected by the Constitution.


64 posted on 10/09/2014 4:32:12 PM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: cork

re: “Goes with rights are endowed by our Creator. Am I correct?”

Absolutely correct.


65 posted on 10/09/2014 4:32:46 PM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: Hugin

Not really. One part of the Dred Scott decision was the requirement that the Federal Government enforce the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1950. This legislation required States and local governments cooperate in apprehension and return of runaway slaves.


66 posted on 10/09/2014 4:42:02 PM PDT by X Fretensis (How)
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To: jaydee770

I believe your interpretation of Article One Section 9. “Cannot prohibit slavery until 1808” is incorrect. The article prohibits outlawing the IMPORTATION of slaves into this country before the year 1808. It does not address the institution of slavery itself.


67 posted on 10/09/2014 5:01:43 PM PDT by X Fretensis (How)
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To: servo1969

These fools have no idea whats in the constitution or any other American document


68 posted on 10/09/2014 5:44:10 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: servo1969

What he really means is, Without the “Right to keep and bear arms” we would all be SLAVES today, But he is just too damned stupid to understand, or just plain EVIL.


69 posted on 10/10/2014 6:51:06 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: X Fretensis

I summarized too much and I stand corrected. Thank you!


70 posted on 10/10/2014 12:44:38 PM PDT by jaydee770
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To: ilgipper

“Where is that slavery clause again?”


This is what The United States Constitution says about slavery:

The Enumeration Clause [Article 1, section 2] does mention that those “bound to service” count as 3/5 of a person.

Article 1 section 9 specifies that laws against the importation of “such persons” cannot be enacted.

Article 4, section 2 specifies that no “person held in service” can escape to another state [Fugitive Slave Clause].

Then, three generations later, a bloody civil war was fought and the result was three Constitutional Amendments were enacted abolishing slavery, guaranteeing citizenship and the right to vote regardless of race, but not sex. [Women were granted suffrage just after WW1.]

Hence slavery was originally part of the Constitution, but was overturned by Amendment.

The right to keep and bear arms was not part of the original Constitution [because the Founding Fathers considered it to be tacitly understood], but was enacted as the 2nd Amendment and has not been overturned since. If the Left wants to take away our 2nd Amendment rights, they are going to have to draft and submit an Amendment doing so and have it passed by Congress and the States. Wanting of that, it is still the Law of the Land.

Finally, the idea that there is a comparison between slavery and the right to keep and bear arms is absurd — and the implication is offensive. Who’s rights are curbed by law-abiding citizens being armed other than criminals and an oppressive government?

We have seen whose side the Left is on in these matters.


71 posted on 10/11/2014 7:44:21 AM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford [feel free to friend me] @wralford on Twitter)
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Scandal has gone full on libtard this season. Episode 1 was a string of liberal talking points on sexual assault and 77 cents on the dollar one liners. Episode 2 was on liberal gun talking points. Episode 3, I don’t know... Stopped watching. At one point it was a fun show to watch, but not now.


72 posted on 10/11/2014 7:57:03 AM PDT by csivils
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To: napscoordinator

This was last week’s episode


73 posted on 10/11/2014 8:01:18 AM PDT by csivils
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To: ilgipper

>>>Where is that slavery clause again?<<<

“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.”

Article I, Section 2, Clause 3

It says ‘all other persons”, not Slaves. he great Compromise. Liberals cannot read or comprehend, period.


74 posted on 10/11/2014 8:10:41 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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