Posted on 04/14/2003 2:20:45 PM PDT by conservativefromGa
1.FACT: Although the gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association, literally spends millions of dollars each year promoting this false claim, the truth is the federal courts have unanimously held that the right to keep and bear arms is limited to participation in an organized militia...that the Second Amendment does not guarantee the right of individuals to own and to carry arms.
OHHH this ticks me off. Why in the blue flame of *$^% do people not see why the 2nd Amendment was written. It's not for hunting it's to keep people FREE FROM THE TYRANNICAL REIGN THAT A GOVERNMENT MAY FORCE UPON THEM, AND TO GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO,"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." AND HAVE THE POWER TO BRING BACK THE TRUTH THAT,"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, AND IF IT EVER COMES , "--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --".
This is why the founders of this great REPUBLIC wrote the 2nd amendment into the Bill of Rights.
Now onto this.
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
You want to have fun w/ a politician? Ask him/her to define the 4 words "shall not be infringed" by those words alone. I can only think of one definition, that one cannot infringe on what ever it is implying, might be infringed. Simple enough.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
But it's those 1st 4 words that the gungrabbers use "A well regulated Militia", that makes their argument what it is today.
How about we just drop those 1st four words and let the left try and argue that the people don't have a right to keep and bear arms?
To be continued................
But of course they never do that. They run on "reasonable" gun control, or "protecting the right to hunt", for the children of course. That's what they say, this sort of thing is what they mean by "reasonable".
Cut and paste the url
http://www.shadeslanding.com/firearms/unabridged.2nd.html
While I don't doubt for a moment that the antigunners wish this in their hearts, I suspect that this memo is bogus.
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