To: RBroadfoot
Using the incorrect verson makes it easier for them to ignore the part after that last (imaginary) comma - shall not be infringed.
56 posted on
12/21/2004 10:36:43 AM PST by
TERMINATTOR
("I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere" - GWB)
To: TERMINATTOR
Your comment about shall not be infringed is right on the money. This document, as good as it is, like all court documents from the last 100 years, does not address these last four words for an obvious reason: The people who wrote this document, like all judges, are agents of the government. As such, they like to give themselves an out, a comfortable position in which they can say the RKBA is a right of all citizens to exercise as individuals, but they reserve the authority to proscribe that right in narrowly defined ways. Such was also the conclusion of the 5th Circuit Court's decision in Emerson. To define the words, shall not be infringed as implied by original intent would mean that all current gun laws are unconstitutional and therefore null and void.
64 posted on
12/21/2004 1:43:39 PM PST by
45Auto
(Big holes are (almost) always better.)
To: TERMINATTOR
Regardless of where you put the commas or how many you use, it's an individual right that shall not be infringed. The meaning is plain. You're absolutely right about that!
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