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To: William Tell
"one effect of which would be to disarm themselves"

So if the right to keep and bear arms is is not protected, that means you have to turn in your weapons.

The California State Constitution does not protect the right to keep and bear arms. Did you turn yours in? Why not? Doesn't that mean you have to?

171 posted on 03/19/2008 6:15:32 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
robertpaulsen said: "So if the right to keep and bear arms is is not protected, that means you have to turn in your weapons."

This is at least the third time that you have failed to distinguish between Congress "doing" something and "having the power to do" something.

Our Founders were writing a Constitution to establish a government which, at that moment, had done NOTHING. Everything written into the Constitution was to describe the powers of a government which did not yet exist, or in the case of the Bill of Rights, the constraints on a government which would not be permitted to exist without such constraints.

That our Founders would give Congress the power to disarm them is ridiculous in the extreme. They had just risked everything of value they had including their lives to throw off a government which had claimed that very power.

You persist in formulating your opinions as if the colonists had petitioned the Crown for permission to form their own sovereign government and had been granted permission. That is not what happened. Many thousands of very noble people died to provide you your freedoms and you dishonor them with your nonsense.

193 posted on 03/19/2008 12:02:57 PM PDT by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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