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To: mr_hammer
In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority “would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.”

The government is still authorized to regulate the civilian uses of weapons - it always has been.

What it is not authorized to do is regulate ownership.

The state can tell you that it is not permissible to conduct target practice in a public park - but it cannot tell you that you cannot own a firearm.

83 posted on 06/26/2008 8:27:29 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

All I can say is.....”WHEW, THAT WAS CLOSE !”


89 posted on 06/26/2008 8:34:17 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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