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To: gpapa
...Second Amendment grants to private citizens the right to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment does not grant the right to keep and bear arms. A "right" is and cannot be granted, withheld, or revoked. Privileges are granted (and withheld or revoked). There is a vast gulf between a right and a privilege.

The Second Amendment recognizes and codifies the right of private citizens to keep and bear arms.

Of course, we can't expect "journalists" to understand, much less report, the difference between a right and a privilege. That would lead to understanding the Constitution means precisely what it says.

15 posted on 11/26/2007 8:26:20 AM PST by DakotaGator
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To: DakotaGator

“Of course, we can’t expect “journalists” to understand, much less report, the difference between a right and a privilege.”

Owning as firearm is about the only “right” that the left does not recognize.

The Right to kill unborn babies.
The Right to marry an individual of the same sex.
The Right to pay lots of taxes.
The Right to a free ride.

on and on and on, ad nausem.


17 posted on 11/26/2007 8:33:07 AM PST by driftdiver
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