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Madison never meant Second Amendment to allow guns of Sandy Hook shooting
Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 17, 2012 | Aaron Burger

Posted on 12/17/2012 10:58:16 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

Following the tragic shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. by Adam Lanza , many Americans are wondering what exactly our Founding Fathers intended when they set the Second Amendment to paper more than 200 years ago. Surely not the killing of 20 young children and six women.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitution; foundingfathers; guncontrol; gunfreezone; guns; jamesmadison; madison; mediabias; mediabiass; newtown; sandyhook; secondamendment
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To: Resolute Conservative

That’s the truth.

LLS


81 posted on 12/17/2012 6:35:50 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (A child is born in Bethlehem KING of KINGS)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

I will go with the brothel.


82 posted on 12/17/2012 8:05:37 PM PST by sakic
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To: KrisKrinkle

About muskets, the author wrote: “When people did die from these weapons, it was often because of lead poisoning...”


Saw a comment by an idiot arguing that the Second doesn’t apply to modern weapons, because that back then, it took 10 minutes to reload & shoot a musket.


83 posted on 12/17/2012 9:20:29 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The founding fathers knew the country might not survive the type if stupidity and ignorance liberals demonstrate with statements like this.


84 posted on 12/18/2012 6:55:02 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: dennisw
I'll go with the coroner's report and evidence. They found .223 wounds and casings. The report of the AR-15 in the trunk was from a reporter before the facts were verified.
85 posted on 12/18/2012 6:12:02 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: ConservativeStatement

George Mason might be amused at the idea that Mdison was the sole Author of the BoR and what it’s intent was.

The Second easily covers all armaments from a simple rock to a fully appointed battleship. Not to mention anything we might develop going forward.


86 posted on 12/18/2012 6:30:55 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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