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To: navyguy
"All it specifies in “a national community”, which could easily be everyone."

Everyone? Foreigners? Illegals? Convicts? Felons? The insane?

"We're all a national community. Let's all get in a circle, hold hands, and sing Kumbaya."

Those who are actually PART of the national community, who actually HAVE a connection to this country, are those who can vote. If you can't (or won't) vote, then you're just along for the ride.

In 1792, the only ones who could vote were adult, white, male citizens. Coincidentally(?), the only ones qualified to be in a Militia. Which was my point.

Today? Today, nonwhites and women are allowed to vote. They are now part of "the people".

188 posted on 11/29/2007 6:18:15 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

You seem to be making a lot of hay for no particular reason. I can’t even tell whether you fear the second amendment will be struck down or if you want it to be struck down. It would be nice if you could articulate your actual position a bit better.


206 posted on 11/29/2007 9:48:18 AM PST by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: robertpaulsen
Everyone? Foreigners? Illegals? Convicts? Felons? The insane?

Those can be addressed, very reasonably and legally according to well-established law, as "demonstrably and/or adjudicated subject to denial of rights". That they lose certain rights is not taken lightly, and is addressed on a case-by-case basis.

There is a very large gap between "adult white male citizen landowners" and "foreigners, illegals, convicts, felons, and insane" - care to address why those in that gap, such as women, non-whites, and non-landowners, are somehow not part of "the people" enough or otherwise not part of our "national community" to the degree they should not have their RKBA protected? You keep ducking this.

208 posted on 11/29/2007 10:09:54 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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