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To: elbucko

Thanks. Now here's a scenario for you. Tomorrow we discover some set of writings by one or more of our founders suggesting that the 2nd Amendment was actually intended to preserve a state's right to maintain a militia, not for individuals. Would it change anything? Could gun grabbers have the day? I don't think so.

The reality is that we have over 100 years of precedent holding that people born in America are Americans. And I, for one, am fine with that.


84 posted on 04/25/2005 7:10:13 PM PDT by zook
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To: zook
the 2nd Amendment was actually intended to preserve a state's right to maintain a militia,...

There is no such thing as "state's rights". Look it up in the Constitution, "states rights" is never mentioned in the document or in subsequent amendments. It's an oxymoron, like collective rights. The language of the constitution is that individuals have "Right's" and government entities have "Power's" and the Founding Fathers never used the terms interchangeably. That you lack the knowledge of this fact indicates to me that you may be a constitutional moron. Furthermore, the 2nd Amendment, as it is written, gives the "power" to form and regulate militias to the states, but maintains the right of the people to be armed.

And I, for one, am fine with that.

Why didn't you just state that and live with the responses instead of giving evidence of your ignorance by trying to support your opinion with your illogical reasoning?

I for one, do not belive that the 14th. Amendment, as it is written, confers citizenship by reason of birth within the borders upon a newborn conceived by two foreign nationals. And it was never intended to do so.

85 posted on 04/26/2005 8:57:29 AM PDT by elbucko
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