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To: ctdonath2

"By simply declaring "no WMDs", you join the VPC reasoning that leads to "no battleships", "no A10 Warthog", "no M1 Abrams", "no M2 Ma Deuce", "no M82A2 Barrett", "no .338", "no .308", "no .223", "no .22", "no slingshots". How do you draw a line? seriously, we've been begging you and Jim and justshutupandtakeit to explain: without the anti-big-stuff hysteria, and knowing that even the M4 is banned now, how do you seriously propose drawing a line? the Founding Fathers didn't - how will you? and why?"

But you see, that is where we disagree. The founders DID draw such a line. They drew it in their debate and in the laws they wrote. You just do not like the line drawn so you ignore it.

They wrote of muskets, swords, etc and drafted specific laws about such things in reference to the Secons Amendment but they did no such a thing about Cannon.




431 posted on 01/20/2005 11:05:42 AM PST by Jim Verdolini
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To: Jim Verdolini
But you see, that is where we disagree. The founders DID draw such a line. They drew it in their debate and in the laws they wrote. You just do not like the line drawn so you ignore it.

They wrote of muskets, swords, etc and drafted specific laws about such things in reference to the Secons Amendment but they did no such a thing about Cannon.

Quote please. The only one I've been able to find that mentions anything other than "arms" mentions "and all the terrible implemtns of the soldier". Not too mention "destructive devices" like fully armed battleships.

433 posted on 01/20/2005 11:10:33 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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