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To: holymoly
Also, when the founding fathers wrote that all American citizens should have the right to bear arms, there was no such thing as an automatic weapon.

There also were no carbines.

6 posted on 09/30/2005 10:56:26 AM PDT by umgud (Comment removed by poster before moderator could get to it)
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To: umgud
There also were no carbines.

Or bolt actions, smokeless powder... the list goes on and on.

18 posted on 09/30/2005 11:00:52 AM PDT by holymoly ("A lot" is TWO words.)
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To: umgud

....no radio, no internet, no high speed printing press, no automobiles, no trains, no aircraft, no.........

So I guess this jerks abilirty to post his trash should also be restricted as not being specifically allowed under the constitution?

BTW, when the constitution was ratified it was common for private Americans to own state of the art warships, cannon, etc.
Restrictions on the ownership of automatic weapons did not come into existence until the media frenzies of the thirties pushed them throught congress as an "answer" to the mobsters of the same time that congress empowered via prohibition.


51 posted on 09/30/2005 11:19:34 AM PDT by Richard-SIA ("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
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To: umgud
There also were no carbines.

We could throw rocks at 'their' carbines.

53 posted on 09/30/2005 11:24:26 AM PDT by chapin2500 (NRA)
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To: umgud
Also, when the founding fathers wrote that all American citizens should have the right to bear arms, there was no such thing as an automatic weapon.

There also were no carbines.

Hell, they didn't even have bullets.
78 posted on 09/30/2005 12:36:24 PM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal press has picked sides ... and they have sided with the Islamofascists)
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To: umgud

>> Also, when the founding fathers wrote that all American citizens should have the right to bear arms, there was no such thing as an automatic weapon. <<

Yes, there was also no such thing as movies, blogs, radio, television, cable. I'm sure the author believes we can scrap the first amendment now that there is. The fact that technology makes a tool more effective is not an argument for eliminating that tool.


94 posted on 09/30/2005 2:39:22 PM PDT by dangus
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To: umgud

let us not forget that the colonial militiaman possesed a weapon that was the exact equivalent of the arm that the Brit Lobsterback infantry soldier of the day had, the Brown bess musket, and many had technologically superior rifled muskets. The founders would expect the right to bear arms to today to include the ordinary selective fire shoulder arms used by today's individual soldier.


117 posted on 09/30/2005 8:58:58 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: umgud
There also were no carbines.

But there were cannons and grapeshot. Old time assault weapons. Ha Ha Ha.

124 posted on 10/01/2005 7:06:39 AM PDT by metalurgist (Death to the democrats! They're almost the same as communists, they just move a little slower.)
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