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To: robertpaulsen
If the objective was to get firearms out of the hands of ordinary citizens and under exclusive control of the government

Which is what you are doing now. You are arguing that there is no "Right" to begin with and that the plain meaning of the text written doesn't mean exactly what the Founders said it meant.

961 posted on 11/15/2007 11:17:45 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse
Which is what you are doing now. You are arguing that there is no "Right" to begin with and that the plain meaning of the text written doesn't mean exactly what the Founders said it meant.

Taken together, everything he says is a formula for incrementalism. You don't have a right as an American citizen to keep and bear arms. You only have that right as a citizen of your state. Now there are 50 different RKBA's which can all be attacked individually. The right to keep and bear arms itself is further divided into any number of "rights" to keep and bear various kinds and descriptions of firearms, each of which can be infringed while still maintaining that you still have the right to keep and bear arms as long as some of them (no matter how trivial) remain.

968 posted on 11/15/2007 12:44:54 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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