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To: steve-b
I ignore the legal opinions of people who say that the Second Amendment protects the right of the states to have a National Guard,

Bork argues that the second amendment can be interpreted either way, and he's correct.

123 posted on 02/24/2005 8:55:39 AM PST by frgoff
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To: frgoff
Bork argues that the second amendment can be interpreted either way, and he's correct.

Nonsense. The notion that an amendment preventing the government from disarming itself was somehow inserted into a batch of protections for individual liberties is preposterous on its face.

Chappaquiddick Ted & Company managed to do a great service to the nation, albeit unintentionally, when this joker somehow got himself nominated as a justice.

132 posted on 02/24/2005 9:04:37 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: frgoff
"Bork argues that the second amendment can be interpreted either way, and he's correct."

I believe the only federal court that stated the second amendment protected an individual right was the recent 5th Circuit decision in Emerson.

Every other lower court ruling either said is was either some "collective" right or the right of a militia.

161 posted on 02/24/2005 10:09:31 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: frgoff
Bork argues that the second amendment can be interpreted either way, and he's correct.

The right way, and the Bork way.

239 posted on 02/24/2005 5:28:44 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Here to help)
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