Posted on 03/15/2007 8:44:56 AM PDT by RKV
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spot on! I needed a good laugh. thanks
Outstanding. Bookmarked
I would have liked for the point about "all able bodied men...not in the regular military are in the militia" to have been carried further. In the State of Florida (and I am sure in others), all abled bodied residents are constitutionally in the militia. Therefore, by the logic of the desenting judge, any abled bodied Florida resident (who is either a US citizen or intends to become one) may own and carry whatever firearm the Adjuntant General deems necessary for the defense of Florida!
In another words, rather than upholding gun control laws, her desenting opinion actually overturns every firearm regulation in the nation!
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! The headline is a classic. And that last paragraph ("liberals reduced to trying to persuade people that they are right") really drives the point home.
In addition to which, and simply stated, why should "the people" have a different meaning in Article Two than it has in any other article of the Bill of Rights?
This fundamental question was raised specifically, and logically and correctly addressed by the appeals court majority.
You have to love the liberal's reverse thinking. They see the Second Amendment as restricting their rights rather than giving them rights.
This:
[What the left does not get about the 2nd Amendment is that it is not about the National Guard, or sporting firearms or gun collections. It does not guarantee the government an army, nor does it guarantee civilians the right to hunt and shoot skeet. It's about the right of the people to maintain some portion of the ultimate power of government -- violence -- to themselves. ]
has been so thoroughly buried by the left that almost nobody still understands it. Even the NRA has been put on such a defensive stance that it is rarely brave enough to wave this at banner height anymore.
The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to prevent tyranny. Period. That means the common man was supposed to have the tools at his disposal to rise up in a new, violent revolution against the government if necessary. In the era of our founding, a rifle could make a man the equal of a professional soldier. Today, we are not even allowed fully automatic weapons, much less the 'arms' that could really create that equality of the power of violence.
How many Americans feel they have no power over the government ? That even if they vote, it won't make any difference ? The systematic dismantling of the Bill of Rights is why they feel that way, with one source of power after another quietly stripped away from the people. So quietly and gradually that most people today don't even realize they once had that power.
No, that's NOLA aka Nagin's "chocolate city."
British troops quartered in America prior to the Revolutionary War were well trained in the use of the firearms of the day. They had to be, as firing them in great volleys on a battlefield as you walked around in phalanx formations took a great deal of skill and training. They trained often under the watchful eyes of their commanders. They trained "regularly", then.
The British troops of the day were called "Regulars", exactly for this reason.
Well regulated did NOT mean, at that time, that numerous bureaucratic hoops had to be jumped through to own a weapon. This seems to be the attitude of the anti-gunners amongst us now, but there's no historical support for that theory.
Nor were these British troops here for hunting purposes, or to amass collections of "new world" firearms to take with them back to England after their tour of duty ended here. The 2nd amendment CLEARLY envisioned none of this claptrap. Those troops were here to be soldiers, and nothing more.
If the district's law-and-order mayor, Adrian Fenty, is so outraged and disappointed by the ruling then he can always move th Europe where he can be with like minded morons.
Over the Green Monster.
And I thought that at my age (21), Florida was just for vacationing! I could own a Barrett regardless of laws? Sign me up!
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Indeed; that mindset has rarely been displayed so openly. They truly do believe that they have the unquestionable right to force their beliefs on others, and they attempt to do precisely that at all levels of government.
It's no surprise that the true nature of the 2nd Amendment - a restraint placed upon goverment - would seem to them to be horrific indeed.
I concur.
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