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To: Jim Robinson
With roughly 1,300 posts, I'm probably repeating what others have said, but...I will not vote for someone who uses the word "regulate" in its modern sense regarding the 2nd Amendment. "Well-regulated" in the 2nd Amendment referred to a disciplined or orderly body of militia, not to regulations propounded by governments that restrict freedoms or liberties.

Knowing Rudy, his definition of "regulation" regarding firearms is the modern one, and thus the passage of any law or regulation that had some rational basis would be good enough for him...but not for me. You see, the 2nd Amendment protects basic rights, and any laws challenged thereunder have to be subjected not to the "rational relation" test, but to "strict scrutiny." Such an evaluation of firearms laws would, if done honestly, result in over 90% of them being tossed out as violative of the 2nd Amendment. Something tells me that Rudy doesn't agree with me, and so I'll vote for someone else.

1,301 posted on 02/08/2007 1:28:08 PM PST by Ancesthntr
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To: Ancesthntr
I agree 100%.

If you want to split the Republican Party for the next election,,,

RUDY IS JUST THE MAN FOR THE JOB!!!!

1,318 posted on 02/08/2007 2:21:09 PM PST by stockstrader ("Where government advances--and it advances relentlessly--freedom is imperiled"-Janice Rogers Brown)
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