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To: groanup
"The same people who's rights are enumerated by the other 9 amendments in the BOR."

The accused (in the 6th amendment)? The owner (in the 3rd amendment)?

Only homeowners accused of a crime have the right to keep and bear arms? Are you sure?

Maybe you can stop dodging my question and tell me who "the people" are in the second amendment. If you don't know, then say so.

119 posted on 10/18/2007 1:37:15 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
Maybe you can stop dodging my question and tell me who "the people" are in the second amendment. If you don't know, then say so.

If your view of the BOR is so skewed that you believe a right only exists once you are accused then you must believe that anyone who buys a gun is "the people" and the right to keep and bear that gun is only invoked after the fact. What do you think the founders meant when they said the "people".

If they meant me then they meant you too. They meant all of the people (that they considered citizens at the time). The only exception would be someone who had forfeited freedom and rights under existing law.

121 posted on 10/18/2007 2:00:11 PM PDT by groanup
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To: robertpaulsen; All

The People: any and everyone who is lawfully within the territorial limits of the United States AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF. In other words, everyone who is a citizen or LEGAL resident of this country can be said to be part of “We, the People.”


329 posted on 10/25/2007 8:57:02 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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