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To: robertpaulsen
Even if the person is an illegal in this country, we protect his inalienable right to life. Or a foreign visitor. Or a 3-year-old child.

If the right to keep and bear arms is also a God-given inalienable right, don't these human beings also have it?

Sure they have it, but it's not protected by our Constitution. They are not part of "the people". Except for the 3 y/o, and the government may not infringe on her right either, but her parents may and should. But they should only in the course of training her to properly exercise the right.

I'm sure you saw the story about the 5 y/o decendent of Davey Crocket who took a 400+ pound bear with his own gun? Grandpa thought he'd missed, but he said something to the effect of "I didn't close my eyes and I didn't jerk the trigger, I kilt it grandpa" and he had.

18 posted on 12/12/2007 4:22:10 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
"Sure they have it, but it's not protected by our Constitution."

I thought our government protected God-given inalienable rights, no?

I remember reading something in some obscure document about governments being instituted among Men to secure certain inalienable Rights, among which are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

I find it hard to believe that we, as a country, would recognize a right as being inalienable and God-given and not protect it for every person.

"I'm sure you saw the story about the 5 y/o decendent of Davey Crocket"

Yeah. But I don't believe Davy Crockett was three when he killed his. I only think they said he was three because it rhymed with Tennessee.

If he was "born on a mountaintop in Michigan", it would have been, "kilt him a b'ar when he was only ten".

Just a guess.

20 posted on 12/12/2007 5:00:32 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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