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To: Copernicus
We'll be lucky to keep single shot rifles.

Here's the second amendment as explained on Whitehouse.gov

The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms. Link

Note the way they say that the second amendment "GIVES" people their rights. The bill of rights serves to secure our God-given rights from the power of the government. The government doesn't give us any rights.

Yet that is the way the new administration perceives rights. They are something given by the government.

2 posted on 01/25/2009 5:46:11 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: MediaMole
That's a great catch!

Those clymers are shameful.

6 posted on 01/25/2009 6:07:38 PM PST by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: MediaMole
I sent an email to the White House asking for a clarification of the phrase "The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms." I also suggested a correction might be in order.

It will be interesting to read their reply as to what they believe the Second Amendment says and means.

8 posted on 01/25/2009 6:17:50 PM PST by 1_Of_We
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To: MediaMole

If you refuse to recognize that rights come from an unappealable Creator, then rights come from (and can be revoked by) an institution of man.


12 posted on 01/25/2009 6:35:02 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: MediaMole
Note the way they say that the second amendment "GIVES" people their rights.

Note the absence of any language that might indicate we have the right to keep said arms.

13 posted on 01/25/2009 6:42:13 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (All the oil's in Texas...but all the dipsticks are in Washington, DC.)
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To: MediaMole
We'll be lucky to keep single shot rifles.

You mean "deadly, hyper-accurate, sniper rifles"? I'm afraid that's out of the question. You now have 24 hours to report to your local reeducation camp for proper instruction on such matters.

Remember: Brother Obama is watching you.

35 posted on 01/25/2009 10:03:58 PM PST by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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