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To: robertpaulsen

Protecting the government’s power to decide who gets what arms under what conditions is hardly a protection of an uninfringed right of the people to keep and bear arms.

So long as you hold that I can’t have a new M4 even though I’m an able-bodied male citizen aged 17-45, unanimously declared by Congress to be a member of “the militia”, registered thereto under the Selective Service System, trained therefor under the DCM program, and living in a state with no restrictions on citizens owning machineguns, and being completely unaware of a single citizen of this nation who actually gets to enjoy the right protected by the 2nd Amendment per your interpretation, I must consider that your interpretation of the 2nd Amendment does, indeed render it null and void.


129 posted on 11/09/2007 7:58:40 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: ctdonath2

edit “unanimously” to “unilaterally”.


132 posted on 11/09/2007 8:09:30 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: ctdonath2
"Protecting the government’s power to decide who gets what arms under what conditions is hardly a protection of an uninfringed right of the people to keep and bear arms."

True. But as I said, the second amendment was never meant to do that. State constitutions protect the individual right to keep and bear arms.

"unanimously declared by Congress to be a member of “the militia”

You may meet the qualifications to be in a well regulated state militia, but that's about it. Hey! I meet the qualifications to be President. So every time I post are you going to salute and hum Hail to the Chief?

Congress cannot infringe on your right to keep and bear your M4 as part of your state militia. If they did, your state could challenge that law in federal court as a violation of the second amendment.

135 posted on 11/09/2007 8:19:21 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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