The left has blown up one sentence in a letter by Jefferson and tried to ramrod "separation of church and state" down our throats. It is poppycock.
For a source, click here. The author of this book is a professor at Yale Law School, and a self-professed liberal, but one of those rare ones who is intellectually honest. Although he is no pro-gun guy, there is no doubt in his mind that the Second Amendment refers to individual's rights. I attended a lecture of his and spoke to him afterward.
And since Jefferson was in France at the time that the ammendments were debated and enacted, and for seven years thereafter, he had no part in the bill of rights, and his misused letter is of no relevance whatsoever.
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