To: Double Tap
Theoretical question for you . . .
if the Second Amendment had not been ratified, would the federal / state governments have the power to regulate the RKBA issue??
59 posted on
10/31/2005 11:28:40 AM PST by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: An.American.Expatriate
NO.
The Second does not grant anything. It enumerates a preexisting right.
To: An.American.Expatriate
Only if the State governement were given specific charter to do so in their respective State Constitutions. The clause here in Texas is "technically" inoperative for as long as the US Constitution supercedes it.
Yes... I am also aware that the Courts of today don't see things that way. That is because they are basing their decisions on almost a century of increasingly screwed up rulings.
62 posted on
10/31/2005 11:38:16 AM PST by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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