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To: LdSentinal
"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."

The Constitution enumerates an individual Right to keep and bear arms.

States do not have God given Rights.

To argue that the Second Amendment only applies to the Federal governent and that State governments may infringe on that Right is sophistry.

9 posted on 07/05/2003 11:49:54 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H
"But it is universally understood, it is a part of the history of the day, that the great revolution which established the constitution of the United States, was not effected without immense opposition. Serious fears were extensively entertained that those powers which the patriot statesmen, who then watched over the interests of our country, deemed essential to union, and to the attainment of those invaluable objects for which union was sought, might be exercised in a manner dangerous to liberty. In almost every convention by which the constitution was adopted, amendments to guard against the abuse of power were recommended. These amendments demanded security against the apprehended encroachments of the general government--not against those of the local governments." -- US Supreme Court, Barron v. Baltimore, 7 Pet. 243 (1833)

"The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress." -- US Supreme Court, U.S. v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875), Presser v. State of Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886)

12 posted on 07/06/2003 12:13:53 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Ken H
States do not have God given Rights.
You've partly hit upon the whole banana. God given Rights! If "religion" is "out" then so is God. If God is "out" then so are our unalienable Rights and government is the dispenser of all Rights.
All of this "morality" hullabaloo is merely a designed smoke screen to take away unalienable Rights.
JMO
25 posted on 07/06/2003 7:58:42 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: Ken H
To argue that the Second Amendment only applies to the Federal governent and that State governments may infringe on that Right is sophistry.

Which the state and federal courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, have proven themselves quite good at, don't you think?

43 posted on 07/07/2003 4:01:39 PM PDT by El Gato
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