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To: tpaine
Yep, and our RKBA's is enumerated, specifically prohibited from being infringed.

Here is where I disagree. Our RKBA's are NOT enumerated. NONE of our rights are! The Bill of Rights is nothing more than specific prohibitions to the government indicating places it could not go.

Would a repeal of the Second Ammendment in any way affect our inherit RKBA?

I take the same opinion as Hamilton. Since the people did not specifically grant the Federal Government the power to pass any laws concerning the possession of arms, they can not do so.

Because of that, I suggest that the people of a state COULD give that power to a state. Why they would do so is beyond my comprehesion and is a most theoretical.

Because governments often totally ignore the restrictions we place upon them is the reason the courts were established. They are supposed to be the arbiters of whether the government has overstepped it's authority. Unfortunately, the courts seem to side with the government.

Just my two cents worth.

56 posted on 06/08/2004 7:20:30 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (A vote for JF'nK is a vote for Peace in our Time!)
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To: An.American.Expatriate
Whatever.
I'm having a tough time deciphering, but you seem to be preaching to the choir. -- Why not argue with paulsen?
59 posted on 06/08/2004 7:51:36 AM PDT by tpaine (The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human be" -- Solzhenitsyn)
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To: An.American.Expatriate
"Because of that, I suggest that the people of a state COULD give that power to a state."

You have a fundamental right to keep and bear arms. As a citizen of a state, you give your state the power, defined by the state constitution, to protect that fundamental right. It is this right which "shall not be infringed" by Congress.

State laws concerning your RKBA are a result of legislation interpreted by the state Supreme Court to meet the intent of the state constitution. Some states, like California, have nothing in their state constitution regarding the RKBA. Because of that, those state legislatures are not restricted when writing gun control laws.

61 posted on 06/08/2004 9:01:25 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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