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To: Zakeet
declared that the Second Amendment guarantees individuals the right to bear arms for nonmilitary uses, even though the amendment clearly links the right to service in a “militia.”

So....we have an amendment which allows our military to carry weapons?!!

Well, that is good news.

35 posted on 06/27/2008 5:37:10 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: laotzu
Astonishingly, all the other nation's military forces carry arms too, even though they don't have a Second Amendment-type thing in their founding documents. Strange but true! It's almost seems bizarre, but our founders wanted to make sure our army was armed. /liberal "thinking"
43 posted on 06/27/2008 5:43:38 AM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: laotzu
So....we have an amendment which allows our military to carry weapons?!!

I think that was in the decision. It would be absurd to have an amendment that allowed the armed forces to have weapons, so that can't be the meaning of the 2A.

In all the recent commentary about this decision it has been easy to pick out those who have not actually read it.

73 posted on 06/27/2008 6:18:17 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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