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To: Dead Corpse
"You were the one to start arguing the difference between "carry" and "bear"."

Only because you were arguing the similarity between "carry" and "bear" with your Ginsburg reference.

"More germane to the argument would be "carrying a firearm in a holster" or "bearing them in a vehicle". Either are apropos, interchangeable, and accurate."

That's something you just made up. Ginsburg made no such statement - not even close. Plus, you're wrong.

"If you seek to narrow the definition, you do so at the expense of reason"

Narrow? No, I'm simply defining it. "To bear" is a military term (see my post #1256). "To carry" is not. The second amendment says, "to bear", which is what the Founding Fathers meant to say. If they meant to say something different, like, "to carry" they would have said, "to carry".

1,264 posted on 11/19/2007 12:16:06 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
Only because you were arguing the similarity between "carry" and "bear"...

No. Not wrong. Didn't actually think you'd be intellectually honest enough to see how your hairsplitting doesn't help your argument any...

1,268 posted on 11/19/2007 1:18:24 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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