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To: do the dhue
"You can not say that it wasn't their intent to have the Second Amendment protect the right to keep and bear arms for all person or even all citizens"

I can and I will.

And why are you saying "all person or even all citizens"? Don't you know who the second amendment protects? Why are you guessing? Which is it?

"they wanted the people armed so the militia could be armed"

Not all persons. Not slaves, that's for sure. Not foreign visitors or illegal aliens. Not the insane, prisoners, or non-citizens. Not women and children.

I don't understand where you're getting this "all individuals in a state have their RKBA protected by the second amendment". Where does it say that?

The second amendment says, "the people". NOT all persons, or all individuals, or all ctizens. It says, "the people" because the Founding fathers meant "the people" and not all persons, all individuals or all citizens.

Who were "the people"? Look at the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2:

"The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States".

Were "the people" who voted slaves? Non-citizens? Women? Children? Prisoners? Nope. Adult, white, male citizens.

Google up the Militia act of 1792. Who were the ONLY ones qualified to be in a Militia? Adult, white, male citizens.

Who does the second amendment protect? "The people" Who were "the people"?

I think you're getting it.

"They would have put out a mandate to turn your weapon in if you are not part of the militia or face stiff penalty, if caught with a weapon."

First, why would they do that? Second, where do they get the constitutional power to do so?

109 posted on 01/06/2008 11:46:49 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
And why are you saying "all person or even all citizens"?

I said this because you said it.

110 posted on 01/06/2008 11:59:11 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: robertpaulsen
You know, I stopped reading your email because you couldn’t even remember what you said to me. But I went ahead and finished reading.

I get people because that is exactly what it says in the the second amendment. It does not say, men or woman or what not, it says the people.

I am still saying that the Second Amendment protects my individual RKBR. Are you saying people are not individuals?

And may I ask, where do they get the Constitutional power to do anything? They apparently have the power to protect our free speech and so in BOR, I would think they would have the Constitutional power to say turn in your weapon.

111 posted on 01/06/2008 12:27:38 PM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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