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To: AZRepublican
They are talkin about the right of the militia to be armed you idiot.

So, your copy of the Constitution says, "The Right of the militia to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"?

You've got a typo. Either that, or you are just another gun hating troll sh*tbag.

161 posted on 03/13/2007 12:43:42 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse
Further, this court decision notes:

We are told by the District that the Second Amendment was written in response to fears that the new federal government would disarm the state militias by preventing men from bearing arms while in actual militia service, or by preventing them from keeping arms at home in preparation for such service. Thus the Amendment should be understood to check federal power to regulate firearms only when federal legislation was directed at the abolition of state militias, because the Amendment’s exclusive concern was the preservation of those entities. At first blush, it seems passing strange that the able lawyers and statesmen in the First Congress (including James Madison) would have expressed a sole concern for state militias with the language of the Second Amendment. Surely there was a more direct locution, such as “Congress shall make no law disarming the state militias” or “States have a right to a well-regulated militia.”

Well... duh.

162 posted on 03/13/2007 1:00:59 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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