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To: TERMINATTOR

Now here they are using the three comma version, I wish
they would make up their mind, one, two, or three.

Not that it matters to me, I understand the framers perfectly, as they intended a citizen should.

Now as to "shall not be infringed", they do not address
that here except perhaps....

"...Our analysis is limited to determining whether the Amendment secures an individual, collective, or quasi-collective right. We do not consider the substance of that right, including its contours or the nature or type of governmental interests that would justify restrictions on its exercise, and nothing in this memorandum is intended to address or call into question the constitutionality, under the Second Amendment, of any particular limitations on owning, carrying, or using firearms. ..."


17 posted on 12/17/2004 5:22:12 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
...nothing in this memorandum is intended to address or call into question the constitutionality, under the Second Amendment, of any particular limitations on owning, carrying, or using firearms. ..."

The OLC certainly slithered out of that difficulty, didn't they? Absent the verbosity of legalize, they just said that even though the OLC considers the RKBA to be individual, they have no problem with those laws that "collectively" now infringe upon those same "individual"rights.

IMHO, "Collective Rights" is an oxymoron. "Rights" are inherently "Individual. "Collective" applies only to "Protections" and "Powers" only to government. "Groups" have "Protections", "Government" as "Powers". Neither has "Rights". Only Individuals have "Rights".

But at least the new opinion is a start.

123 posted on 12/18/2004 11:02:50 AM PST by elbucko (Feral Republican)
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