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To: Joe Brower

I do not believe that private individuals should be allowed to possess bazookas, nuclear weapons, RPGs, Abrams tanks, aircraft carriers, fighter planes, B-52s, intercontinental ballistic missiles or anthrax. Nor is it practical to allow heavy weaponry within highly congested places.

There is no "right" possessed by individuals to endanger others. A gangbanger under attack by another gangbanger has no right to shoot a little girl because he is firing back at someone shooting at him.

Militias of which the Second amendment speaks were to be "well-regulated" not a haphazard mob of devotees. They were to be officered by men appointed by the State and drilled to federal regulations.

That is NOT what the Absolutists are about.


204 posted on 05/24/2006 1:00:35 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Back peddling already? Thugs aren't killing each other with RPG's. But with semi-auto weapons. The same kind millions of US citizens own who never commit a crime with them.

Those are the ones you are talking about banning. You think that it is just peachy for States to do away with despite being signatories to the Constitution and bound by it's limits. As you stated quite clearly in 186 and again in 188.

A citizen militia was one reason for not infringing arms ownership and carry. It wasn't the ONLY reason.

210 posted on 05/24/2006 1:07:35 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
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