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To: Myrddin
The framers of the 2nd Amendment did not envision it as giving convicted felons an unfettered right to keep and bear arms.

I disagree. The framers would have kept a person in prison if they were not fit to be set free in civil society. If they were fit to be free, they were also fit to keep and bear arms.

Too bad we can't return to the framers way of thinking and the individual liberty they enjoyed.

18 posted on 09/27/2006 12:31:05 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

Who says the framers thought that way? It's nothing but an urban myth that they intended on keeping everybody who wasn't fit to be armed in a prison. WHAT prisons? The ones every jurisdiction was building and staffing with the combined funds from the colossal federal, state, and local income taxes that were being collected from citizens of the late 18th century United States?

They had common sense back then, and everybody understood that convicted criminals and insane/retarded people were not to be given the same freedoms as normal people.


22 posted on 09/27/2006 12:58:14 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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