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To: dagogo redux
The Second Amendment is the defining statement of the United States of America regarding the fundamental relationship that exists between the country’s citizens and those they choose to govern them.

There's a good reason 'the right to keep and bear arms' was second only to 'freedom of speech and religion' when the founders framed the Bill of Rights. I mean, it sure wasn't the Fifth, Eight, or Tenth Amendment. It was not an afterthought. It was that important to the founders.

18 posted on 01/02/2013 11:57:26 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

I Charlton Heston once said if we didn’t have the 2nd amendment we wouldn’t have the first.


32 posted on 01/03/2013 5:41:58 AM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: Lancey Howard

I hate to disappoint you, but what is now known as the “second” amendment was originally the third or forth, (don’t remember for sure).

The proposed bill rights had twelve amendments. They were in no particular order.


41 posted on 01/05/2013 6:11:13 PM PST by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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