To: CharlesWayneCT
At the time the 2nd amendment was written, arms had a specific meaning. There were no semi-automatic, or automatic, weapons. Today arms include rocket propelled grenades. Do have have an absolute right to own a stinger anti-aircraft missle? Thats an arm, and you just said I have an inalienable right to keep and bear arms? Is there ANY weapon I cant have? If so, how do you decide which weapons are rights and which are not?This is the same argument leftist gun-grabbers use (to be clear, I am *not* calling you a leftist gun-grabber -- just observing that you are using their argument). By this argument, logically we should only be permitted to own arms that existed during Revolutionary times. It's specious. The Founders were no fools. The answers to your questions lie in the Federalist Papers.
97 posted on
11/02/2007 10:07:50 PM PDT by
ellery
(I don't remember a constitutional amendment that gives you the right not to be identified-R.Giuliani)
To: ellery
Nailed it... again!!!
LLS
103 posted on
11/03/2007 4:57:26 AM PDT by
LibLieSlayer
(Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
To: ellery
Just because some idiot starts with a basic fact to make a fallacious argument doesn’t mean that basic fact can’t be used to make a sound argument.
Why will nobody actually answer the question? I think it’s because they can’t answer the question without revealing their own hypocrisy.
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