To: bruoz
"These morons also ignore the usage of "the people" in the First, Fourth and Ninth Amendments. In each case it preserves or reserves the rights of individual persons."
Oh, they didn't ignore the usage at all. First they need to establish a new precedent into law, then they can apply it to the rest of the Bill of Rights!!!
To: Destructor
Exactly right. Once they change the meaning of the phrase "the people" and/or deconstruct simple sentence structure as it relates to our rights, they can change the entire Constitution. "The people" don't have a right to peacefully assemble, only the press does. "the people" don't have the right to redress grievances, only religions do. The way to win this argument is to be stridenly liberal. If you want to defend the second amendment, we must defend the first.
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