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To: CodeToad
I just did a search on What does keep and bear arms mean, and the best answer I found was this one

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

"A well regulated militia being nessesary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." - Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

It means we the people have the right to own and carry firearms, knives, swords or whatever weapons we want. The founders of this country believed that the people should possess the arms so they could defend their liberty from oppressive government. They were brilliant - they knew that government cannot be trusted. If only the government had weapons then they could push us around and there wouldn't be anything we could do about it. With arms we are citizens, without them we are subjects.

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and the keystone under independence." - George Washington

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson

"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more
propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"

~Patrick Henry June 9, 1788, in the Virginia Convention
on the ratification of the Constitution.
Source

Now I like to see you carry one of these around

Or even one of those

What I mean is that I think there is a limit

36 posted on 01/28/2013 9:28:27 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

You are one superficial thinker to believe a simple five second google search means you now have all there is to know on a subject.

Try researching just who owned the warships of the Revolution. Go ahead. Spend more than five seconds this time. While you are at it, since a cannon is an image you posted, go ahead and research for once in your life Lexington and Concord and just what where the British after the day the Shot Heard ‘round the World happened. (Hint: Cannons.)


38 posted on 01/28/2013 9:41:34 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: Kaslin
What I mean is that I think there is a limit

There is no limit. To suggest that there is a limit implies that the right to life and what necessarily extends from it -the right to self defense; is limited.

Beyond that -who sets such limits IF they do exist? The right to life is endowed all by God -where does government fit in to this right? Per the Constitution, government does not grant the right -it only guarantees it and defends it. In fact, it is primarily the right to life that is the very premise underlying the arming of government, military and police forces. What limit does government have in protecting this right?

Remember, it was not the Federal Government or the States that constituted the government -it was the people; the same people that revolted against the king. The three branches of the Republic are the Federal, the States, and the People -all bearing arms for the same purpose.

43 posted on 01/28/2013 10:15:05 AM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: Kaslin
What I mean is that I think there is a limit

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56 posted on 01/28/2013 12:02:34 PM PST by itsahoot (MSM and Fox free since Nov 1st. If it doesnÂ’t happen here then it didn't happen.)
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